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EIGHTH GRADE 
EXAMINATION 
QUESTION BOOK 



COMPILED BY 

Sam C. Stephenson 

Aurora, Nebraska 




First Edition, 1921 Price 35 Cents 



Eighth Grade 
Examination Question Book 



All the Questions Issued for Eighth Grade Examinations 

by the 

State Superintendents of Public Instruction 

of Nebraska, since January 1st, 1915 



Compiled by 
Sam C. Stephenson 



First Edition 1921 



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Pref 



rerace 

In my school work as a teacher and County Superintendent, 
the information contained in this book was of great value to 
me and was continually asked for by teachers and pupils. 

These questions, in the fourteen different subjects, are a 
complete list of all the questions issued for Eighth Grade Exami- 
nations by the State Superintendents of Public Instruction of 
Nebraska, since January 1, 1915. 

They made an excellent review in all these fourteen sub- 
jects required to pass the eighth grade examination. They 
should be studied carefully by all the pupils desiring to take 
this examination. They will give the teachers and pupils an 
idea of what has been expected of the pupils in the past, thus 
enabling them to make better grades and better students be- 
cause of the fact that they understood how to answer the 
questions. 

You will note this book is right up-to-date, having listed 
in it a list of the last eighth grade examination questions. 

In order to obtain the best results, every eighth grade 
pupil should have a question book for class use so that efficient 

work may be done. 

Sam C. Stephenson, 
Former County Superintendent of Schools 
Hamilton County 
Aurora, Nebraska 



Skillful questions cause the pupil to define his facts; to clarify his 
ideas; to put facts and ideas together in new relations; to compare; to 
judge and to draw inferences — mental operations which develop our 
higher knowledge. —Hindsdale 



Contents 

PAOE 

Our Flag 5 

Better Citizenship 7 

Choice Selections 11 

National, Ftate and County Governments 13 

Rules aid Regulations 16 

Arithmetic 17 

Mental Arithmetic 2T3 

Geography 27 

Grammar 32 

English Composition 37 

Reading 38 

Bookkeeping 43 

Agriculture 44 

Physiology 48 

Orthography 52 

Penmanship 57 

Drawing 60 

History 63 

Civics 88 



Our Flag 



Military Salute 



I pledge allegiance to the flag and the 
republic for which it stands; one coun- 
try; one language; one flag. 



National Flag Salute 

Commit to memory 

I pledge allegiance to my flag and to 
the republic for which it stands — one 
nation, indivisible, with liberty and jus- 
tice for all. 

The military pledge is the better for school 
children. 

A Patriotic Exercise 

Salute to the Flag 

At the given hour in the morning the 
pupils are assembled and in their places 
in the school. A signal is given by the 
teacher of the school. Every pupil rises 
in his place. The flag is brought forward 
to the teacher. While the flag is being 
brought' forward from the door to the 
stand of the teacher every pupil gives 
to the flag, the military salute, which 
is as follows: 

Raise the right hand smartly till the 
tip of the forefinger touches the fore- 
head above the right eye, thumb and 
fingers extended and joined, palm to the 
left, forearm inclined at about 45 de- 
gree, hand and wrist straight; while 
thus standing, with the forefinger touch- 
ing the forehead in attitude of salute, all 
the pupils repeat together slowly and 
distinctly the following pledge: 

I pledge allegiance to the flag and the 
republic for which it stands; one coun- 
try; one language; one flag. 

At the words, "To the flag," each one 
extends the right hand gracefully, palm 
upward, toward the flag, until the end 
of the pledge or affirmation. Then all 
hands drop to the side. 

The pupils, still standing, all sing to- 
gether in unison the national hymn, 
America. 

Etiquette of the Flag 

There are many citizens who are not 
familiar with rules governing the use of 
the Stars and Stripes. Flag etiquette 
should be taught in school that pupils 
may not grow up ignorant of these facts. 

1. The flag should not be raised be- 
fore sunrise nor be allowed to remain up 
after sunset. It should not be raised on 
stormy days. 




2. When the flag is passing on pa- 
rade, or in review, the onlookers should 
stand at attention with heads uncov- 
ered. 

3. In no case should the flag be al- 
lowed to touch the ground. 

4. For indoor decorations the flag can 
only be used as a draping; it cannot 
be used to cover a bench or table, where 
anything can be set upon it. 

5. When used upon a casket at a 
funeral, the stars should be placed at 
the head. 

6. In placing the flag at half-mast it 
should first be hoisted to the top of the 
staff and then lowered to position. Be- 
fore lowering the flag from half-mast, 
it should be raised to the top and then 
lowered. 

7. When the flag is formally raised, 
all present should stand at attention with 
hand raised to the forehead for salute. 

8. If a foreigner wishes to raise the 
flag of his nationality, he must raise 
the Stars and- Stripes above and never 
below it. 

9. When the flag is hung vertically 
against the wall, the blue should be in 
the upper right hand corner. 

When hung horizontally the blue 
should be at the left, in the position as if 
attached to a staff. 

10. When the flag is used as a ban- 
ner, that is, suspended across a street, 
the union, or field, should fly to the north 
in streets running east and west, and to 
the east in streets running north and 
south. 

11. When a flag is displayed on a 
rope, the field should be away from the 
residence of the one displaying the flag, 
in the same position as it would be if 
attached to the staff. 



The American's Creed 

Commit to memory 

I believe in the United States of Amer- 
ica as a government of the people, by 
the people, for the people, whose just 



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powers are derived from the consent of 
the governed; a democracy in a repub- 
lic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign 
states; a perfect union, one and in- 
separable, established upon those prin- 
ciples of freedom, equality, justice and 
humanity for which American patriots 
sacrificed their lives and fortunes. 

I therefore believe it is my duty to 
my country to love it; to support its 
Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect 
its flag; and to defend it against all 
enemies. 



Displaying the Flag- at Public 
Schools 

The flag should be displayed on • the 
staff of the public school every day dur- 
ing which school is in session. It should 
not be left out during rainy or snowy 
weather nor when there is an extremely 
high wind. 



The Flag- Should be Displayed at 
Full Staff 

New Year's Day Jan. 1st 

Lincoln's Birthday Feb. 12th 

Washington's Birthday Feb. 22d 

Nebraska admitted to Union. .. .Mar. 1st 
Death of Lincoln (half mast).. Apr. 15th 
Inauguration of first President. .Apr. 19th 

Arbor Day Apr. 22d 

Decoration or Memorial Day.... May 30th 

Flag Day June 14th 

Battle of Bunker Hill June 17th 

Independence Day July 4th 

Labor Day.... First Monday in September 

Columbus Day Oct. 12th 

Battle of Saratoga Oct. 17th 

Surrender of Yorktown Oct. 19th 

Liberty Day (Armistice) Nov. 11th 

Evacuation Day Nov. 25th 

Landing of Pilgrims Dec. 20th 

On Memorial Day, May 30th, the flag 
should fly at half staff from sunrise until 
noon and full staff from noon to sunset. 



America 

(Note — Whenever, in a public place, the 
national hymn, America, is sung or the 
tune played, all persons in the audience 
should rise and remain standing during 
the singing or while the tune is being 
played.) 

Men and boys remove hats. 



Remember 

An army corps is 60,000 men or more. 

An infantry division is 19,000 men or 
more. 

An infantry brigade is 7,000 men or 
more. 

A regiment of infantry is 3,000 men — 
three battalions. 

A battalion is 1,000 men — four com- 
panies. 

A company is 250 men. 

A platoon is 60 men or less. 

A corporal's squad is 8 men or less. 

A field battery has 195 men. 

A firing squad is 20 men. 

A supply train has 283 men. 

A machine gun battalion has 296 men. 

An engineer's regiment has 1,098 men. 

An ambulance company has 66 men. 

A field hospital has 55 men. 

A medical detachment has 13 men. 

A major general heads the field army 
and also each army corps. 

A brigadier general heads each infantry 
brigade. 

A colonel heads each regiment. 

A lieutenant colonel is next in rank 
below a colonel. 

A major heads a battalion. 

A captain heads a company — two cap- 
tains in war time. 

A lieutenant heads a platoon. 

A sergeant is next below a lieutenant. 

A corporal is a squad officer. 



Your Flag and My Flag 

Commit to Memory 

Your flag and my flag, 

And how it flies today 
In your land and my land 

And half a world away! 
Rose-red and blood-red 

The stripes forever gleam; 
Snow-white and soul-white — 

The good forefathers' dream. 

Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to 

gleam aright — 
The glorified guidon of the day, a shelter 

through the night. 



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Your flag and my flag! 

And, Oh, how much it holds — 
Your land and my land — 

Secure within its folds. 
Your heart and my heart 

Beat quicker at the sight; 
Sun-kissed and wind-tossed — 

Red and blue and white. 

The one flag— the great flag — the flag for 

me and you — 
Glorified all else beside — the red and 

white and blue! 

Your flag and my flag! 

To every star and stripe 
The drums beat as hearts beat 

And fifers shrilly pipe! 
Your flag and my flag — 

A blessing in the sky, 
Your hope and my hope — 

It never hid a lie! 

Home land, and far land and half the 

world around, 
Old Glory hears our glad salute and 

ripples to the sound! 

— Wilbur D. NesMt 



The Service Flag 

Commit to Memory 

Dear little flag in the window there, 
Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer; 
Child of Old Glory, born with a star — 
Oh, what a wonderful flag you are. 

Blue is your star in its field of white, 
Dipped in the red that was born of fight; 
Born of the blood that our forebears shed 
To raise your mother, The Flag o'erhead. 




And now you've come, in this frenzied 

day, 
To speak from a window — to speak and 

say: 
"I am the voice of a soldier-son 
Gone to be gone till the victory's won. 

"I am the flag of The Service, sir, 
The flag of his mother — I speak for her 
Who stands by my window and waits and 

fears, 
But hides from the others her unwept 

tears. 

"I am the flag of the wives who wait 
For the safe return of a martial mate, 
A mate gone forth where the war god 

thrives 
To save from sacrifice other men's wives. 

"I am the flag of the sweethearts true; 
The often unthought of — the sisters, too. 
I am the flag of a mother's son, 
And won't come down till the victory's 
won." 

Dear little flag in the window there, 
Hung with a tear and a woman's prayer; 
Child of Old Glory, born with a star — 
Oh, what a wonderful flag you are. 

— William Herschell 



Better Citizenship 



The future of the republic depends upon the character of its citizenship. We are 
not building permanently unless the youth of the land are made fully acquainted with 
the meaning of American citizenship. We must give patriotism a vitality which will 
find expression in service. — Thomas R. Marshall 



George Washington 

(1732-1799) 
First President of the United States 

I hope I shall always possess firmness 
and virtue enough to maintain what I 
consider the most enviable of all titles, 
the character of an "honest man." 

When Washington's secretary excused 



himself for the lateness of his attendance 
and laid the blame upon his watch, his 
master quietly said, "Then you must get 
another watch, or I another secretary". 
It will generally be found that the men 
who are thus habitually behind time are 
habitually behind success; and the world 
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the grumblers and the railers against 
fortune. 

"Washington stands among the great- 
est men of human history, and those in 
the same rank with him are very few. 
Whether measured by what he did, or 
what he was, or by the effect of his 
work upon the history of mankind, in 
every aspect he is entitled to the place 
he holds among the greatest of his race. 




"Few men in all time have such a 
record of achievement. Still fewer can 
show, at the end of a career so crowded 
with high deeds and memorable victories, 
a life so free from spot, a character 
so unselfish and so pure, a fame so void 
of doubtful points demanding either de- 
fense or explanation. Eulogy of such 
a life is needless, but it is always im- 
portant to recall and freshly to remember 
just what manner of man he was." 

— Henry Cabot Lodge 




Abraham Lincoln 

(1809-1865) 

Sixteenth President of the 

United States 

"A blend of mirth and sadness, smiles 
and tears; a quaint knight errant of 
the pioneers, a homely hero born of star 
and sod; a peasant prince; a master- 
piece of God." -Walter Malone 

Commit to Memory 

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS 

Abraham Lincoln 

Four score and seven years ago our 
fathers brought forth upon this continent 
a new nation, conceived in liberty and 
dedicated to the proposition that all men 
are created equal. We are engaged in 
a great civil war, testing whether that 
nation — or any nation so conceived and 
so dedicated — can long endure. We are 
met on a great battlefield of that war. 
We have come to dedicate a portion of 
that field as the final resting place of 
those who here gave their lives that that 
nation might live. It is altogether 
fitting and proper that we should do 
this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot 
dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 
hallow this ground. The brave men, 
living and dead, who struggled here, have 
consecrated it far above our power to add 
or to detract. The world will little note, 
nor long remember, what we say here; 
but it can never forget what they did 
here. 

It is for us, the living, rather to be 
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which they have thus far so nobly ad- 
vanced. It is rather for us to be here 
dedicated to the great task remaining 
before us; that from these honored dead 
we take increased devotion to that cause 
for which they here gave the last full 
measure of devotion; that we here highly 
resolve that these dead shall not have 
died in vain; that this nation shall, under 
God, have a new birth of freedom; and 
that government of the people, by the 
people, for the people, shall not perish 
from the earth. 




Captain! My Captain! 

(Walt Whitman, a unique American author and 
poet, has outstripped all contemporaries in his great 
lyric tribute to Lincoln. This poem should be read 
in every schoolroom in the land until every head 
should bow in sacred appreciation of our country's 
sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.) 

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip 

is done, 
This ship has weather'd every rack, the 

prize we sought is won, 
The port is near, the bells I hear, the 

people all exulting, 
While follows eyes the steady keel, the 

vessel grim and daring; 
But O heart! heart! heart! 
O the bleeding drops of red, 
Where on the deck my Captain lies 
Fallen cold and dead. 

O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear 

the bells; 
Rise up — for you the flag is flung — for 

you the bugle trills. 
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths — 

for you the shores a-crowding, 
For you they call, the swaying mass, their 

eager faces turning; 
Here Captin! dear father! 
This arm beneath your head! 
It is some dream that on the deck 
You've fallen cold and dead. 
My Captain does not answer, his lips are 

pale and still, 
My father does not feel my arm, he has 

no pulse nor will, 
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its 

voyage closed and done. 
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in 

with object won; 
Exult, O shores! and ring, O bells! 
But I with mournful tread, 
Walk the deck my Captain lies, 
Fallen cold and dead. 

— Walt Whitman 



Theodore Roosevelt 

"What we have a right to expect from 
the American boy is that he shall turn 
out to be a good American man. Now 
the chances are that he won't be much 
of a man unless he is a good deal of a 




boy. He must not be a coward, or a weak- 
ling, a bully, a shirk, or a prig. He 
must work hard and play hard. He must 
be clean-minded and clean-lived, and able 
to hold his own under all circumstances 
and against all comers. It is only on these 
conditions that he will grow into the kind 
of a man of whom America can really be 
proud. 

"A great democracy has got to be pro- 
gressive, or it will soon cease to be either 
great or a democracy. 

"Our effort should be to raise the level 
of self-respect, self-control, sense of duty 



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Our Country 



in both sexes, and not to push them down 
to an evil equality of moral turpitude by 
doing away with the self-restraint and 
sense of obligation which have been slow- 
ly built up through the ages. We must 
bring them to a moral level by raising 
the lower standard, not by depressing the 
high. 

"We Americans are only on the thres- 
hold of the campaign for a better national 
life. We have only begun to consider our 
duty toward the child; to realize that the 
child-drudge is apt to turn into the shift- 
less grown-up; to realize that the child 
growing up in the streets has first-class 
opportunities for tending toward crimin- 
ality, and, therefore, that playgrounds 
may be as necessary as schools. We have 
only begun to realize that the child's 
mother, if wise and duty-performing, is 
the only citizen who deserves even more 
from the state than does the soldier; and 
that, if in need, she is entitled to help 
from the state, so that she may rear and 
care for her children at home. 

"No nation can achieve real greatness if 
its peoples are both essentially moral and 
essentially manly; both sets of qualities 
are necessary. 

"The only value of words uttered or 
listened to comes when they are trans- 
muted into deeds. 

"American society is sound at core and 
this means that at bottom we, as a peo- 
ple, accept as the basis of sound morality 
not slothful ease and soft selfishness and 
the loud timidity that fears every species 
of risk and hardship, but the virile 
strength of manliness which clings to the 
ideal of stern, unflinching performance of 
duty, and which follows whithersoever that 
ideal may lead. 

"The test of a man's worth to the com- 
munity is the service he renders to it, 
and we cannot afford to make this test 
by material considerations alone. 

"There never yet was a service worth 
rendering that did not entail sacrifice; and 
no man renders the highest service if he 
thinks over-much of the sacrifice." 

— Theodore Roosevelt 



"And for your Country, boy, and for that 
Fl g, never dream a dream but of serving 
her as she bids you, even though the ser- 
vice carry you through a thousand hells. 
No matter what happens to you, no mat- 
ter who flatters you or who abuses you, 
never look at another flag, never let a 
night pass but you pray God to bless that 
Flag. Remember, boy, that behind of- 
ficers and government, and people even, 
there is the Country Herself; your Coun- 
try, and you belong to Her as you belong 
to your own mother. Stand by Her, boy, 
as you would stand by your mother." 

— Edward Everett Hale 



America for Me 

'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel 
up and down 

Among the famous palaces and cities of 
renown, 

To admire the crumbly castles and the 
statues of the kings — 

But now I think I've had enough of anti- 
quated things. 

So it's home again, and home again, Amer- 
ica for me! 

My heart is turning home again, and there 
I long to be, 

In the land of youth and freedom beyond 
the ocean bars, 

Where the air is full of sunlight and the 
flag is full of stars. 

Oh, London is a man's town, there's power 
in the air; 

And Paris is a woman's town, with flow- 
ers in her hair; 

And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and 
it's great to study Rome; 

But when it comes to living, there is no 
place like home. 

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet some- 
thing seems to lack: 

The Past is too much with her, and the 
people looking back. 

But the glory of the Present is to make 
the future free — 

We love our land for what she is and 
what she is to be. 

Oh, it's home again, and home again, Amer- 
ica for me! 

I want a ship that's westward bound to 
plough the rolling sea, 

To the blessed Land of Room Enough be- 
yond the ocean bars, 

Where the air is full of sunlight and the 
flag is full of stars. 

— Henry Van Dyke 



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Choice Selections 



Stand by Your School 

If you think your school's the best, 

Tell 'em so! 
If you'd have it lead the rest, 

Help it grow. 
When there's anything to do, 
Let the others count on you, 
You'll feel bully when it's through; 

Don't you know. 

If you're used to giving knocks, 

Change your style; 
Throw bouquets instead of rocks, 

For awhile; 
Let the other person roast, 
Shun him as you would a ghost, 
Meet his hammer with a boast, 

And smile. 

When a stranger from afar 

Comes along, 
Tell who and what we are — 

Make it strong. 
Needn't natter, never bluff, 
Tell the truth, for that's enough; 
Join the boosters — they're the stuff. 

We belong. 



How Do You Tackle Your Work? 

How do you tackle your work each day? 

Are you scared of the job you find? 
Do you grapple the task that comes your 
way 

With a confident, easy mind? 
Do you stand right up to the work ahead 

Or fearfully pause to view it? 
Do you start to toil with a sense of dread 

Or feel that you're going to do it? 

You can do as much as you think you can, 

But you'll never accomplish more; 
If you're afraid of yourself, young man, 

There's little for you in store. 
For failure comes from the inside first, 

It's there if we only knew it, 
And you can win, though you face the 
worst, 

If you feel that you're going to do it. 

Success! It's found in the soul of you, 

And not in the realm of luck! 
The world will furnish the work to do, 

But you must provide the pluck, 
You can do whatever you think you can, 

It's all in the way you view it; 
It's all in the start you make, young man, 

You must feel that you're going to do it. 




How do you tackle your work each day? 

With confidence clear of dread? 
What to yourself do you stop and say 

When a new task lies ahead? 
What is the thought that is in your mind? 

Is fear ever running through it? 
If so, tackle the next you find 

By thinking you're going to do it. 

— Edgar A. Guest. 



It Couldn't Be Done 

Somebody said that it couldn't be done, 
But he with a chuckle replied, 
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would 
be one 
Who wouldn't say so until he tried. 
So he buckled right in, with the trace of 
a grin 
On his face. If he worried he hid it. 
He started to sing as he tackled the thing 
That couldn't be done — and he did it! 

Somebody scoffed, "O, you'll never do 
that— 
At least, no one ever has done it;" 
But he took off his coat and he took off 
his hat, 
And the first thing we knew he'd 
begun it. 
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin, 

Without any doubting or quiddit, 
He started to sing as he tackled the thing 
That couldn't be done — and he did it! 

There are thousands to tell you it cannot 
be done, 
There are thousands to prophesy 
failure; 
There are thousands to point out to you 
one, by one, 
The dangers that wait to assail you. r 
But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, 
Then take off your coat and go to it. 
Just start in to sing as you tackle the 
thing 
That "cannot be done" — and you'll do it, 
— Edgar A. Guest 



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I had rather be a "Could-Be" 

If I couldn't be an "Are," 
For a "Could-Be" is a "May-Be" 

With a chance of reaching par. 

I had rather be a "Has-Been" 
Than a "Might-Have-Been," by far — 

For a "Might-Have-Been" has never been, 
And the "Has-Been" was once an "Are." 



My Wish 

If I could make a wish for you, 

And then could make that wish come true, 

I'd wish that you might always be 

A blessing to humanity — 

That you may have less loss than gain; 

More days of happiness than pain; 

That in the years that are to come, 

You'll always have a happy home; 

When trials come, as come they must, 

You'll face them with a steadfast trust, 

That they who battle for the right, 

Are sure to conquer in the fight; 

And may your friend and leader be 

The Glorious Man of Galilee. 

— C. W. Wood, Aurora, Nebr. 



"Hullo!" 

When you see a man in woe, 
Walk right up and say "Hullo"! 

Say "Hullo," an' "How d'ye do;" 
"How's the world a usin' you?" 

Slap the fellow on his back, 

Bring your nan' down with a whack; 

Waltz right up, and don't go slow, 
Grin an' shake and say "Hullo." 

Is he clothed in rags; O sho, 
Walk right up an' say "Hullo;" 

Rags is but a cotton roll 
Jest for wrappin' up a soul; 

An' a soul is worth a true 

Hale and hearty "How d'ye do!" 



Don't wait for the crowd to go, 
Walk right up and say "Hullo." 

Wen big vessels meet, they say, 

They saloot an' sail away. 
Jest the same are you an' me, 

Lonesome ship upon a sea. 
Each one sailing his own jog 

For a port beyond the fog. 
Let your speakin' trumpet blow, 

Lift your horn and cry "Hullo!" 

Say "Hullo," an' "How d'ye do!" 

Other folks are as good as you. 
When you leave your house of clay, 

Wanderin' in the far away, 
Wen you travel through the strange 
Country t'other side the range, 
Then the souls you've cheered will know 
Who you be, and say "Hullo!" 

— Samuel Walter Foss 



Only a Boy 

He is only a boy, whom you see every day, 

With a smile do you greet him, my 
friend? 
Or do you pass by as you meet on the way, 

Never thinking it pays in the end, 
To give to the boy what is rightly his own, 

Recognition by you, when you can? 
Though only a boy, his heart is not stone, 

You can help him to be a good man. 

He is only a boy, but deep in his soul 

Lie slumbering, thoughts full of joy, 
That will thrill this old world while the 
years onward roll, 
Thoughts born in the heart of a boy. 
Then friend, just give to the boy what 
you should, 
And help him whenever you can; 
For when you are helping a boy to be 
good, 
You are helping to build a good man. 
— C. W. Wood, Aurora, Nebraska 



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National, State and County Governments 

President of the United States — Warren G. Vice-President of the United States — 
Harding. Term, four years, 1921-25. Calvin Coolridge. Term, four years, 

Salary, $75,000. 1921-25. Salary, $12,000. 

NOTE In addition to his salary the President is furnished his home, the White House, and approxi- 
mately $125,000 for expenses. 



The President's Cabinet 

Secretary of State . . Charles Evans Hughes 
Secretary of the Treasury. Andrew Mellon 

Secretary of War John W. Weeks 

Attorney General .... Harry M. Daugherty 

Postmaster General Will H. Hays 

Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby 

Secretary of the Interior A. B. Fall 

Secretary of Agriculture. . .Henry Wallace 
Secretary of Commerce. . .Herbert Hoover 
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis 

Salary of each, $12,000. 

Term, four years, 1921-25. 

U. S. Senators from Nebraska 

George W. Norris 1919-1925 

Gilbert M. Hitchcock 1917-1923 

The U. S. Senators receive $7,500 per 
year and mileage at the rate of 20 cents 
per mile each session of congress. 

Representatives in Congress From 
Nebraska 

District No. 1 C. F. Reavis 

District No. 2 A. W. Jeffries 

District No. 3 Robert E. Evans 

District No. 4 M. O. McLaughlin 

District No. 5 W. E. Andrews 

District No. 6 Moses P. Kinkaid 

Members of the House of Represen- 
tatives receive a salary of $7,500 per year; 
mileage at the rate of 20 cents per mile 
each way for each session of congress; 
$125 extra for stationery, etc., and are 
provided with a clerk at government cost. 
Term of membership, two years, 1921-23. 

United States Supreme Court 

Chief Justice, Fourth Judicial District 

William Howard Taft 

Associate Justice, Ninth Judicial Dis- 
trict Joseph McKenna 

Associate Justice, First Judicial Dis- 
trict Oliver W. Holmes 

Associate Justice, Sixth Judicial Dis- 
trict. . .' William R. Day 

Associate Justice, Eighth Judicial Dis- 
trict .Willis Van Devanter 

Associate Justice, Third Judicial Dis- 
trict Mahlon Pitney 

Associate Justice, Fifth Judicial Dis- 
trict James C. McReynolds 

Associate Justice, Second Judicial 

District Louis D. Brandeis 

Associate Justice, Seventh Judicial 

District John H. Clark 



Clerk James Maher 

Marshal Frank Key Green 

Deputy Clerk H. C. McKenney 

Reporter Ernest Knaebel 

The salary of the Chief Justice is 
$15,000 and of each Associate Justice, 
$14,500. Term, life or during good be- 
havior. 

State Officers 

Term, 1921 to 1923 

Governor Samuel R. McKelvie 

Salary, $7,500 
Lieutenant Governor P. A. Barrows 

Salary, $1,600 for two years. 
Secretary of State D. M. Amsberry 

Salary, $5,000 
Auditor of Public Accounts 

George W. Marsh 

Salary, $5,000 
Commissioner of Public Lands and 

Buildings Dan Swanson 

Salary, $5,000 
Treasurer D. B. Cropsey 

Salary, $5,000 
Superintendent of Public Instruction. . 

John H. Matzen 

Salary, $5,000 
Attorney General Clarence A. Davis 

Salary, $5,000 

Tax Commissioner 
Secretary W. H. Osborne 

Salary, $5,000 

Railway Commissioners 

Harry L. Cook Thorne A. Browne 

H. G. Taylor 

Salary, $5,000 per year, each 

State Supreme Court 

Chief Justice. Andrew M. Morrisey 

Associate Justice Charles B. Letton 

Associate Justice William B. Ross 

Associate Justice George A. Day 

Associate Justice C. H. Aldrich 

Associate Justice James R. Dean 

Associate Justice Leonard Flansburg 

Salary, $7,500 per year, each 
Clerk Harry C. Lindsay 

Salary, $4,000 
Deputy Clerk .P. F. Green 

Salary, $2,500 

Administrative Code Departments 
Department of Finance — 

Secretary Philip F. Bross 

Department of Agriculture — 

Secretary Leo Stuhr 

Department of Labor — 

Secretary F. A. Kennedy 



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Department of Trade and Commerce — 
Secretary J. E. Hart 

Department of Public Welfare — 

Secretary H. H. Antles 

Department of Public Works — 

Secretary George E. Johnson 

Department of Education 
Executive Division 

State Superintendent John M. Matzen 

Deputy State Superintendent .John Speedie 
Assistant Superintendent 

Cora A. Thompson 

Rural School Inspector I. N. Clark 

Normal Training Inspector 

Archer L. Burnham 

Assistant Normal Training Inspector 

Frank R. Beers 

Head Certification Department 

• Lulu S. Wolford 

Assistants 

Secretary Cecile Snapp 

Secretary Normal Training Department 

(Bookkeeper) Ruth E. Wheeler 

Stenographer Theoda Fox 

Stenographer Helen M. Stacy 

Stenographer Eulalia Heinemeyer 

Clerk and Statistician. . . .Verneda Whitney 
Clerk of Examinations. Caroline C. Cooper 
Clerk of Examinations. Mrs. C. D. Wheeler 
Clerk of Examinations Etta Brown 



Sixth District Frederic W. Button 

Fremont 
Sixth District A. M. Post 

Columbus 
Seventh District Ralph D. Brown 

Crete 
Eighth District Guy T. Graves 

Pender 
Ninth District Anson A. Welch 

Wayne 
Ninth District William V. Allen 

Madison 
Tenth District William A. Dilworth 

Fremont 
Tenth District Lewis H. Blackledge 

Red Cloud 
Eleventh District E. P. Clements 

Ord 
Eleventh District Bayard H. Paine 

Grand Island 
Twelfth District Bruno O. Hostetler 

Kearney 
Thirteenth District. .. .J. Leonard Tewell 

Sidney 
Fourteenth District E. C. Eldred 

McCook 
Fifteenth District Robert R. Dickson 

O'Neill 
Sixteenth District. . .William H. Westover 

Rushville 
Seventeenth District. .. .Ralph W. Hobart 

Mitchell 
Eighteenth District Leonard W. Colby 

Beatrice 



District Judges 

First District John B. Raper 

Pawnee City 
Second District James T. Begley 

Plattsmouth 
Third District Willard E. Stewart 

Lincoln 
Third District Fred Shepherd 

Lincoln 
Third District W. M. Morning 

Lincoln 
Third District Elliott J. Clements 

Lincoln 
Fourth District L .B. Day 

Omaha 
Fourth District James M. Fitzgerald 

Omaha 
Fourth District Charles Leslie 

Omaha 
Fourth District Willis G. Sears 

Tekamah 
Fourth District Alexander C. Troup 

Omaha 
Fourth District William A. Redick 

Omaha 
Fourth District Arthur C. Wakeley 

Omaha 
Fifth District George F. Corcoran 

York 
Fifth District Edward E. Good 

Wahoo 



State Institutions 

University of Nebraska Lincoln 

Samuel Avery, Chancellor 
State Normal School Peru 

A. L. Caviness, President 
State Normal School Kearney 

George E. Martin, President 
State Normal School Wayne 

U. S. Conn, President 
State Normal School Chadron 

R. I. Elliott, President 
University of Agriculture Lincoln 

H. E. Bradford, Principal 
Nebraska School of Agriculture. .. .Curtis 

A. P. Davidson, Principal. 

Hastings Asylum for Insane Hastings 

Norfolk Asylum for Insane Norfolk 

Hospital for Insane Lincoln 

State Penitentiary Lincoln 

Tuberculosis Hospital Kearney 

Girls' Industrial School Geneva 

Clara G. Quimby, Superintendent 
Boys' Industrial Home Kearney 

R. V. Clark, Superintendent 

Industrial Home Milford 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. Grand Island 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Home Milford 

School for the Feeble Minded. .. .Beatrice 

Dr. D. G. Griffiths, Superintendent 
School for the Deaf and Dumb Omaha 

F. W. Booth, Superintendent 



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School for Blind Nebraska City 

N. C. Abbott, Superintendent 

Orthopedic Hospital Lincoln 

Nebraska Home for Dependent Chil- 
dren Lincoln 

Miss Amy V. Stevens, Superintendent 

State No7-mal Schools 
Boaed of Education 

President, T. J. Majors Peru 

Vice-President, Dan Morris Kearney 

Secretary, H. E. Reische Chadron 

Fred S. Berry Wayne 

E. H. Gerhart Newman Grove 

Ella May Young Omaha 

John M. Matzen Lincoln 

Indian Schools 

U. S. Indian School Genoa 

Sam B. Davis, Superintendent 

Santee Normal Training School. .. .Santee 
Frederick B. Riggs, Principal 

Winnebago Indian Agency. . . .Winnebago 



F. T. Mann, Superintendent 
Omaha Indian Agency Macy 

E. J. Bost, Superintendent 
All Saint's Mission School Winnebago 

Rev. Elias Wilson, Superintendent 
St. Augustine Mis.sion School. .Winnebago 

Sister M. Liguori, Superintendent 



University of Nebraska, Lincoln 
Board of Regents 

F. W. Judson term expires, Jan. 1925 

J. R. Webster. term expires Jan. 1925 

William L. Bates.. term expires Jan. 1927 
George N. Seymour. term expires Jan. 1927 

P. L. Hall term expires Jan. 1923 

H. D. Landis term expires Jan. 1923 

Secretary of the Board of Regents. . . . 

James Stewart 

Chancellor Samuel Avery 

Principal, School of Agriculture 

'. H. E. Bradford 

Executive Dean C. C. Engberg 




New State Capitol Building 



16 EIGHTH GRADE EXAMINATION QUESTION BOOK 



Rules and Regulations 



Following are the rules and regulations as set forth by State Superintendent Matzen 
for the eighth grade examinations held in 1921: 
To the County Superintendents: 

The dates are set for the final eighth grade examinations each year by the State 
Superintendent. A suggested program schedule follows. It is not required that this 
program be followed rigidly; county superintendents may use their discretion in mak- 
ing minor changes to meet situations that arise if they deem it advisable. It is desired, 
however, that the program be followed as uniformly as possible throughout the state 
in order that the secrecy of the questions may be protected. 

EXAMINATION PROGRAM 
THURSDAY FRIDAY 

Forenoon Afternoon Forenoon Afternoon 

Grammar History Mental Arithmetic Orthography 

English Composition Civics Arithmetic Reading 

Writing Physiology Bookkeeping Geography 

Drawing Agriculture 

These examinations may be held by teachers, or other competent persons appointed 
by the county superintendents, at convenient places throughout the county to be 
designated by the county superintendent. At no time should they be held by a teacher, 
any of whose pupils are taking the examinations. 

Examination questions will be furnished by this department, and will be printed 
in four separate sets, one set for each half-day. Kindly notify this department at an 
early date on the inclosed blank of the number of complete sets you will need for both 
examinations. Envelopes containing questions should not be opened until the beginning 
of the half-day for which they are scheduled to be given. 

The board of examiners may or may not be composed of teachers, but in any case 
they must be persons with qualifications at least equal to those required for the second 
grade county certificate. This does not mean that they must hold a certificate. How- 
ever, great care should be exercised in the selection of very competent examiners. 

The county superintendent at the close of each examination, after ascertaining that 
the name of the pupil is not written on the examination paper, shall record each set 
of papers by name and number, after which papers should be turned over to the examin- 
ing board who shall consider them by number only. 

Pupils should write answers in clear, concise terms; the questions need not be 
written. Complete solution of all problems in arithmetic should be given. Credit 
should be deducted from carelessly written or illegible papers. The general average 
in the fourteen required subjects must be at least seventy-five per cent with no grade 
below sixty per cent in any subject. It' is recommended that teachers plan the exami- 
nations for their pupils, advising them as to the subjects in which they should write, 
urging them to take the full time allowed for each subject, and to write every paper 
as neatly and carefully as possible. All papers should be written in pen and ink. 
Drawings may be made with pencil. When pupils re-take a subject to raise their 
grade they may retain the former grade if it is higher. Passing grades earned in 
either the April or May examinations are valid. Pupils should pin the pages of each 
subject together with all edges even. No whispering or collusion of any kind should 
be permitted;" grades of pupils violating this rule should be cancelled. Conductors 
are not to explain the meaning of any questions given in the lists or give any informa- 
tion relating to their answers. These examination questions are stated plainly enough 
for one who knows the subject. 

All pupils wishing to avail themselves of the free high school law must pass these 
examinations; this applies to all who desire these privileges regardless of the school 
they are attending. The parents of pupils entitled to free high school certificates should 
make written application to their county superintendent within the forty days preced- 
ing the second Monday in June. Please see that the parents of your eighth grade pupils 
passing these examinations are fully advised of this requirement. 

Yours very truly, 




State Superintendent. 



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Arithmetic 



Lesson I 

ARITHMETIC 

4-9-15 
(Answer ten) 

1. Add: 13 ft. 4 in and 15 ft. 10 in. Sub- 
tract 486789 from 563412. 

2. Multiply 8.09 by .14; divide 1.69 by 
.0013. 

3. At 37 cents a bushel how many bush- 
els of potatoes can be bought for $4.81? 

4. From an alfalfa field of 15 acres three 
crops were harvested in one season. The 
average yield per acre for each crop was 
2850 lbs. How much was the season's yield 
worth at $14.50 per ton? 

5. How many acres are there in a farm 
134 rods long and 52.5 rods wide? 

6. How many feet of lumber are there 
in ten boards 14 ft. long, 6 in. wide and 
2 in. thick? 

7. A farmer bought 40 acres of land at 
$40 an acre and spent $600 for improve- 
ments. For how much must he sell it to 
gain 20% 

8. Martha used for a cake 2 cups of 
sugar at 2y 2 cents each, *4 lb. butter at 
30 cents a pound, % pint of milk at 8 
cents a quart, 2 cups flour at 3 cents each 
and baking powder and salt worth % cent. 
How much did the cake cost? 

9. Find the interest on $5320 for 1 yr. 4 
mo. 10 da. at 5%. 

10. If 90% of the seed corn planted in 
a certain field germinates and the yield is 
36 bushels per acre, what would have been 
the yield had all the seed corn germinated. 

11. A freight train runs 20 miles an 
hour, and a passenger train on the same 
road runs 35 miles an hour. If a passenger 
train makes a trip between two points in 
4 hours, how many hours will it require 
for the freight train to make the same 
trip? 

Lesson II 

ARITHMETIC 

5-7-15 
(Answer ten) 

1. How many minutes in 5 da., 15 hr., 
20 min.? 

2. A pile of 2-foot wood is 10 ft. long, 
4 ft. high. How many cubic feet are there 
in that pile? 

3. A side of bacon weighs 8 lbs. 12 oz. 
A ham weighs 13 lbs. 4 oz. What is the 
cost of both if bacon is worth 24 cents 
per pound and ham 20 cents per pound? 

4. What is the cost of the following 



coal bill at $7.50 per ton: 3650 lb., 2720 
lb., 5000 lb., 1960 lb., 2750 lb.? 

5. A room is 18 ft. long, 15 ft. wide and 
9 ft. high. How many square yards are 
there in the walls, floor and ceiling? 

6. Shingles laid 4 in. to the weather 
will cover 16 sq. in. of space. How many 
shingles will cover the two sides of a roof, 
each side being 40 ft. by 20 ft.? 

7. Hogs lose about 1/5 of the live 
weight in dressing. A 380-lb. live hog, 
purchased at $6.75 a hundred is retailed 
at an average price of 15 cents a pound. 
What is the profit? 

8. A man walked 5/12 of his journey 
the first day, % of it the next day and 
then had 20 miles to travel. How long 
was the journey? 

9. What principal will yield an interest 
of $600 in 5 yr. at 6%? 

10. Mr. Smith sold his farm for $6360, 
thereby gaining 20%. Would he have 
gained or lost and what per cent, if he had 
sold it at $5500? 

11. If 8 lbs. of corn will plant one acre, 
how many bushels will it require to plant 
a field of 70 acres? 

12. The following is an estimated cost 
of 100 sq. yd. of lath and plaster for two 
coat work: 

1500 lath at $4.75 per M. 
10 lb. nails at $3.20 per cwt. 

Labor putting on lath $4.50 

10 bu. lime at 45c per bushel. 
6 lb. hair at 4c per pound. 

1 load of sand $1.75 

Plasterer, 2% da. at $5.00 

Find the cost per square yard. 



Lesson III 

ARITHMETIC 

3-10-16 
(Answer ten) 

1. In the working days of a week a 
man works 9% hrs., 10% hrs., 8% hrs., 
9% hrs., 8*4 hrs. What are his wages 
for the week at 30c an hour? 

2. A farmer having gathered 120 bush- 
els of potatoes lost % of them. What per 
cent did he save? 

3. The terms of a sale are: Sums under 
ten dollars, cash. Amounts over that, one 
year's time at 6% interest, or 2% off for 
cash. A man buys a team of horses for 
$360. What will he have to pay at the 
end of a year's time, including the inter- 
est? How much if he pays cash? 

4. At 5c a bushel, what will it cost to 



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thresh 50 acres of wheat averaging 30% 
bu. per A.? 

5. A round silo has a diameter of 20 
feet (Pi equals 3 1/7) and is 35 ft. high. 
How many tons of silage will it hold if 50 
cu. ft. of space is required for each ton? 

6. A school district whose valuation is 
$45,000 desires to raise $540 tax. How 
many mills must they levy? 

7. If a landlady receives $60 for board- 
ing 3 men 5 weeks, how much should she 
receive for boarding 7 men 4 weeks? 

8. A and B form a partnership, A 
putting in $300 and B $500. They gain 
$320. What is each man's share of the 
gain? 

9. A field 120 rods long and 45 rods 
wide yields 15 bu. of wheat per acre. 
What is the entire yield? 

10. James Wilson gives his note to 
Charles Rice for $600, for 3 years, interest 
at 6%. This note was dated March 1, 
1913, at Fort Wayne, Ind. Write this as 
a negotiable note in regular form. When 
will it be due? 

11. A merchant sold a house for $3680, 
losing 8%. For how much should the buyer 
sell it to gain 12%%? 

12. A farmer has 80 fat steers to mar- 
ket. Their average weight is 1200 lbs. 
The market price is $8.25 per cwt. He de- 
cides to hold them for a better market. 
Two weeks later he sells at $8.75 per cwt. 
During the two weeks the steers have 
gained an average of 4 lbs. each, and it has 
cost $24.50 for feed for the period. Did 
he lose or gain by holding them, and 
how much? 

13. A road runs on two sides of a 
square 40-acre field. In going from one 
corner to the diagonally opposite corner, 
how much will be saved by going in a 
straight line, rather than by following the 
road? 

Lesson IV 

ARITHMETIC 

4-14-16 
(Answer ten) 

1. Add: da. hr. min. 

4 20 40 

16 30 

1 40 

2. A salesman receives $100 per month 
and a commission of lVk% of his sales. 
What does he receive for the year in 
which his sales amount to $108,000? 

3. If $105 is paid for the rent of a field, 
$35 for plowing, $48 for planting and har- 
rowing, $54 for seed corn, $37.50 for culti- 
vating, $90 for husking and $85 for shell- 
ing and marketing, how much profit is 



there on 2250 bu. of corn selling at 57c 
per bushel? 

4. (a) Divide 16700 by 695, (b) Multi- 
ply 76.43 by 98.2. 

5. A man has an income of $1825 a 
year. He spends 1/5 of it for groceries, 
$200 for rent, $437 for clothing and $443 
for sundries. How much will he have 
left at the end of the year? What is his 
average net income per month? What is 
the meaning of "net income"? Of "sun- 
dries"? 

6. The valuation of a school district 
is $150,000. The school tax of 5 mills 
on the dollar, maintains a school of 20 
pupils. What is the cost per pupil? 

7. Furniture catalogued at $60 is bought 
by a dealer at 40% discount. If he sells it 
at the catalogue price, what is his per 
cent of profit? 

8. Fire is discovered on the roof of a 
building 48 ft. high. A ladder resting 13 
feet from the bottom of the building just 
reaches the roof. How long is the ladder? 

9. A bin 12 ft. long and 8 ft. wide con- 
tains a quantity of wheat sloping from 6 
ft. in depth at one end to 3 ft. in depth 
at the other. How many bushels (approxi- 
mately) of wheat in the bin, allowing 1% 
cu. ft. to the bushel? 

10. A dealer buys 150 barrels of flour. 
He sells one-third of it at $4.50 per bbl., 
losing 10 per cent. The remainder he 
sells at a profit of 6 per cent. What is 
his net gain or loss? 

11. Mrs. Burns buys 40 yds. of carpet 
% of a yard wide. She uses 1/10 of it 
for a rug and the remainder to carpet a 
floor. How many sq. yds. does she use for 
the floor? 

12. On April 1, 1916, R. M. Cook of Chi- 
cago borrowed from J. G. Ager $560 for 
6 months at 8%. Write a negotiable note 
covering this transaction. 

Lesson V 

ARITHMETIC 

5-5-16 
(Answer ten) 

1. (a) How many acres in a section? 
Sections in a township or precinct? Pre- 
cincts in your county? (b) Carefully made 
estimates show that good roads increase 
the value of land $6.48 per acre. How 
much does this increase the value of a 
farm of 160 acres? 

2. Find the L. C. M. of 60-15-8-120-12-30. 
Find the G. C. D. of 9-24-1260-1684. 

3. A and B engaged in business as part- 
ners. A furnished $400, B $600. They 
gained $420. What was each man's per 
cent of the gain? 

4. The owner of a house worth $3760 in- 



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sures it for 80% of its value, (a) What 
is the face of his policy? (b) What is the 
annual premium at 30c per $100? 

5. (a) What is the difference between 3 
sq. ft., and a 3 ft. square? (b) Multiply 
2 yds., 1 ft., 4 in. by 8. 

6. Reduce 778 pints to bushels. 

7. At $3 a day how much does a man 
earn in three weeks if he works 4 1/5 
days the first week, 5% the second week 
and 5 2/3 the third week? 

8. What is the cost at 7c per sq. yd. of 
tinting the walls and ceiling of a school- 
room 18 ft. wide, 27 ft. long, 10 ft. high, 
deducting 54 sq. yards for windows, doors 
and blackboard? 

9. A note of $600 dated Nov. 20, 1912, 
was paid Aug. 9, 1915, interest at 6%. 
Find the amount. 

10. A man whose property is valued at 
$5400 has to pay the following taxes: 
state and county, 10 mills; road district, 2 
mills; school tax, 13 mills; and $2.50 poll 
tax. What does his tax amount to? 

11. 8y 2 X 7/13 y 3 



1/12 of 3y 2 



% of 7 7/11 



% 
12. If telegraph poles are 88 yds. apart, 
and a passenger on a train counts 23 every 
3 minutes, at what rate is the train travel- 
ling per hour? 

Lesson VI 

ARITHMETIC 

3-23-17 
(Answer ten) 

1. What must you know and what must 
you do to find the area of a square? Of 
a triangle? 

2. If you have the dimensions of a 
square, how can you find its perimeter? 

3. B owns a triangular plot of ground; 
he knows the length, in rods, of its base, 
altitude and hypothenuse. How shall he 
find the number of acres it contains? 

4. A farmer had 26 acres planted to 
potatoes. The crop from 7 acres yielded 
1260 bushels. At the same rate, how many 
bushels did he receive from the whole 
field? 

5. If the valuation of your school dis- 
trict is $50,000 and it costs $1250 to run 
the school for a year, how many mills are 
levied? 

6. What effect has the placing of zeroes 
to the right of a decimal? To the left of 
a decimal? 

7. A horse was sold for $200, which 
was 20% less than the buying price. What 
must the buyer sell the horse for in order 



to gain 25%? What was the first buying 
price? 

8. A cow was purchased for $75.00. 
She gave 4 gallons of milk a day for the 
months of May, June, July and August. 
Two-thirds of the milk each day was sold 
at 8c a quart and the cow was sold for 
$95.00. How much was gained on this 
transaction considering that the $75.00 
might have been 'drawing interest at the 
rate of 7% for this length of time? 

9. I paid an agent $55.80 for buying 
wheat on a commission of 3%. Find 
amount spent for wheat. 

10. Originate problems to demonstrate 
the solutions of the following and solve 
them by analysis: 

(a) You have given the cost and rate 
per cent of profit, or loss, to find profit, 
or loss, and the selling price. 

(b) You have given the selling price 
and the rate per cent of profit or loss to 
find cost. 

11. Write the 45 combinations. 

12. A boy who has been working this 
year at $30.00 a month is offered an in- 
crease of 25% for next year or a salary of 
$9.00 per week. Which will bring the 
larger income, a^d how much more per 
year (use 52 weeks) ? 



Lesson VII 

ARITHMETIC 
4-20-17 

1. Divide 5625 by .00005; 5 by .25; .255 
by 25. 

2. Two men charter a boat to carry 
some freight to a certain city. One ships 
75 tons and the other 135 tons. How much 
should each pay? 

3. Find the prime factors of 7007, 7644. 

4. How many cubic yards of dirt are re- 
moved in excavating for a cellar 30 ft. 
long, 30 ft. wide and 6 feet deep? 

5. A pole is Y5 in the mud, y± in the 
water and 44 feet in the air. How long 
is the pole? 

6. Find the contents in bushels of a 
box 3 ft. long 2 ft. wide and 2% ft. high. 

7. What is the rate per cent when the 
interest of $480 for 2 years, 3 months is 



8. A man paid $60 for insuring his $6000> 
house at 80% of its value. Find the rate- 
of insurance. 

9. How many bricks will be contained 
in a wall 6 feet long, 40 feet high and 12' 
inches thick, if 22 bricks with mortar will 
make one cubic foot. 

10. If the railway fare for a journey of 
75 miles is $1.50, what will be the fare 
for 275 miles? 



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Lesson VIII 

ARITHMETIC 

5-11-17 
(Answer ten) 
(a) Add: 



(b) 



48 rods 5 yd. 6 ft. 
33 rods 4 yd. ft. 


3 in. 

4 in. 


) Subtract: 

37 gal. 3 qt. 1 
25 gal. 5 qt. 3 


pt. 
pt. 



2. Change 9 weeks, 7 da., 15 min., 35 sec, 
to seconds. 

Multiply: 38 bu. 7 pk. 5 qt. 3 pt. by 8. 

3. If an agent charges 5% for collecting 
and thus earns $150 per month, how much 
does he collect in a month? 

4. A ladder is placed at a window; the 
ladder is 45 ft. long. If the foot of the 
ladder is 20 ft. from the building, how 
high is the window? 

5. A farmer had 110 acres of wheat 
which made 25 bushels to the acre. He 
paid 4c a bushel to have it threshed, $4.00 
a day for 10 days to have it stacked and 
other expenses amounted to $500. If he 
received $1.50 a bushel for it, how much 
was netted? 

6. Define: promissory note, net pro- 
ceeds, commission, tax, insurance. 

7. If your house which is worth $5,000 
is insured for % of its value at 2y 2 %, what 
is the premium? 

8. How many acres of land in a section? 
How many rods of wire will be required 
to fence it if it is in the form of a square? 

9. How many bushels of wheat in a bin 
25 ft. long, 20 ft. wide, 12 ft. high? 

10. Find the number of gallons of water 
in a circular cistern 12 ft. deep and 6 ft. 
in diameter. 

11. How many cubic feet of silage in a 
silo 15 feet in diameter and 30 feet high? 

12. A clothier bought suits at $12.00 
each and marked them to sell at 25% 
profit. He afterwards reduced the marked 
price 10%. What percent did he finally 
gain upon the cost? 

Lesson IX 

ARITHMETIC 
4-12-18 

1. (a) Give definitions for the follow- 
ing: sum, quotient, product, dividend, dif- 
ference, (b) Subtract and prove: 964,971 — 
346,782. 

2. (a) What is a fraction? (b) What 
are the terms of a fraction? (c) What 
is a proper fraction? (d) What is an im- 
proper fraction? 



3. (a) Change the following fractions 
to their lowest terms: 182 125 

196 325 

(b) Change the following mixed num- 
bers to improper fractions: 75 15/28, 
305 3/7. 

4. (a) A farmer sold % of his farm for 
$1521. At that rate, what is the value of 
% of the farm? (b) 9/5 of 20 is 4/3 of 
what number? (c) What per cent of 208 
is 96? 

5. (a) Find the quotient of 85.75 di- 
vided by .0049. (b) How many minutes 
in the month of April? 

6. (a) I sold two horses at $150 each. 
On the first I gained 25%, and on the sec- 
ond I lost 25%. Did I gain or lose? How 
much? (b) Find the interest and amount 
of $560 at 6% for four years and seven 
months. 

7. Find the cost of 50 boards, 16 feet 
long, 12 inches wide, and 1 inch thick, at 
$35 per M. 

8. How many gallons of water in a tank 
12 feet long, 18 inches deep and 2 feet 
wide? 

9. Find the area of a triangle whose 
base is 12 inches and whose altitude is 9 
inches. 

10. The U. S. Government paid $30,076 
for 10,000 steel helmets. A certain society 
made a drive last January to sell enough 
"Baby Bonds" at $4.12 each to pay for these 
helmets. How many "Baby Bonds" were 
sold? 

Lesson X 

ARITHMETIC 
5-9-18 

1. Write in words: (a) 304,025,343.3; 
(b) 4.00576; (c) CXCIV. 

2. (a) Add, 346 4/9, 25%, 4259 5/12, 
5006; (b) Subtract 43.65308 from 3406.7. 

3. A man's salary was increased 21% 
and it is now $1,766.60. How much did he 
receive before obtaining the increase? 

4. (a) A farmer marketed 11 hogs, if 
each hog weighed 315 pounds and he re- 
ceived $16.30 per hundred, how much did 
he receive for his hogs? (b) What is 1460 
pounds of coal worth at $11.25 per ton? 

5. (a) A farmer has a rectangular field 
of wheat which is 64 rods long and 24% 
rods wide. If the wheat yields 23 bushels 
to the acre and he receives $2.20 per bushel, 
what will be his total receipts from his 
wheat crop? (b) If his expenses are $9.50 
per acre, on the above wheat crop, what 
will be his net receipts? 

6. (a) How many pounds in a bushel 
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dried; of potatoes; of oats? (b) How many 
rods in a mile; square rods in an acre; 
acres in a section? (c) How many quarts 
in a peck; units in a score; gallons in a 
barrel; cubic inches in a cubic foot; years 
in a century? 

7. (a) What part of a rod is 12% 
inches? (b) Reduce 21 bushels, 1 peck 
and 5 quarts to pints. 

8. (a) Write out a negotiable note 
drawn to your teacher. Face value $312.25, 
time 2 years and 5 months, rate of interest 
7%. (b) Find the amount of interest 
you would pay on this note for the given 
time. 

9. What will be the cost at $1.25 per 
square yard, of a rug for a floor 12 by 16 
feet if there is a margin 18 inches wide, 
extending around the room, which is not 
covered by the rug? (b) How many cubic 
feet in a circular tank which is 10 feet 
in diameter and 2% feet deep? 

10. (a) If each of the 100,000,000 per- 
sons in the United States would save one 
lump of sugar each day, how many tons of 
sugar would be saved in a common year, 
counting 80 lumps of sugar to the pound? 
(b) What would be the value of the sugar 
in the preceding problem at $9.25 per hun- 
dred pounds? 

Lesson XI 

ARITHMETIC 
4-11-19 

1. (a) What is a unit, integer, fraction? 
(b) Define the following: product, quo- 
tient, dividend, sum. 

2. (a) Write the following in FIGURES: 
One hundred five and sixty-five thou- 
sandths; twenty-seven and one hundred 
four hundred thousandths, (b) Write the 
following in WORDS: .067563, 967.307. 

3. If a team of horses eats 1 pk. 6 qt. 
of oats a day, and oats are worth 70c per 
bushel, what is the cost of oats fed to a 
team of horses during the month of De- 
cember? 

4. If you buy eggs at 3 for 5c and sell 
them at 3 for 10c, how much would you 
gain on 10 dozen of eggs? 

5. A field 80 rods long and 60 rods wide 
yields 15 bushels of wheat to the acre. If 
wheat is sold at $2.00 per bushel, what is 
the value of the crop? 

6. Find the commission at 2% for sell- 
ing a car load of hogs weighing 18,000 
pounds at 16c per lb. What was received 
for the hogs after the commission was 
paid? 

7. What tax does a man pay whose prop- 
erty is valued at $95000 when the tax levy 
is 3 mills on the valuation? What is a 
poll tax? 

8. 35% of a regiment being sick, only 



637 men were able to enter battle. How 
many men in all in the entire regiment? 

9. Find the interest and amount of 
for two years, 6 mo., at 6%. 

10. Write a promissory note face of 
which is $500, interest 6%, making John 
Smith the maker and Charles Stone the 
payee. 

Lesson XII 

ARITHMETIC 
5-9-19 

1. (a) If a boy spends y 2 of % of his 
money for a ball and has 35c left, how 
much money had he at first? (b) How 
many feet in % of a mile? 

2. (a) Write in words: 24.304. 2,013,- 
016.06. $306.04. (b) Write in figures— 
Seventy-five ten-thousandths. Four hundred 
four and fourteen millionths. (c) Write in 
Roman Notation — 36, 19, 94. 

3. The cost of turning 4% bushels of 
wheat into 196 lbs. of flour and marketing 
the flour is $1.80. If wheat is $1.76 per 
bushel what is the actual cost of a 49 lb. 
sack of flour? 

4. A soldier's ration is 3% ounces of 
sugar per day. What will it cost to supply 
a soldier with sugar for ten days if the 
sugar costs the government $7.50 per hun- 
dred pounds? 

5. (a) Write a promissory note, correct 
in form, for $360.50. Dated April 1st, 1919. 
Time 1 year, 4 months and 15 days. Rate 
of interest 8%. (b) Find amount to be 
paid at maturity. 

6. A storekeeper bought 30 cases of eggs 
in one day. Each case contained 30 dozen 
eggs at 26c per dozen. He shipped these to 
Omaha paying 50c per case freight and 
sold the whole lot for $271.50. What was 
his net gain per dozen? 

7. An auctioneer contracted to cry a 
sale for $20.00 and y 2 % commission on the 
total amount of the sale. If the sale a- 
mounted to $7650.00 what did the auc- 
tioneer receive for his services? 

8. A man owning property valued at 
$21,000.00 had this property insured for 
80% of its value at 1%% premium, (a) 
What was the amount of the premium? (b) 
What would be the total loss to the owner 
if the property should be totally destroyed? 

9. (a) How many rods of fence will it 
require to fence 20 acres in the form of a 
square? (Carry the length of a side to one 
decimal place only), (b) Find the area 
of a circle the radius of which is 15 
inches. 

10. A man sold -two houses for $1200.00 
each. On one he gained 20% and on the 
other he lost 20%. How much money did 
he lose by the two transactions? 



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Lesson XIII 

ARITHMETIC 
3-26-20 

1. Place in a column and add: 

6842, 9367, 8524, 3179, 6245, 7628, 8403, 
3009. 

2. Perform the operations indicated: 
(a) 7485X2963=? (b) 2093218—754209 

= ? (c) 470932h-628=? 

3. Write in words: 4628, CLIX, 29.012, 
3/16, 12%%. 

4. Write table for avoirdupois weight 
and name five things whose quantity is de- 
termined by it. Same for liquid measure. 

5. How many feet in a mile; sq. rds. in 
an acre; ounces in a pound; seconds in a 
minute? 

6. If % of a number is 15, what is 2% 
times the number? Explain fully. 

7. A load of wheat, wagon and all, 
weighs 4126 pounds. The wagon alone 
weighs 1114 pounds. What is the grain 
worth at $2.15 per bushel? 

8. To what will $480.00 amount when 
put out on interest from January 1, 1918, 
to April 1, 1920, at 8% per annum? 

9. The valuation of the property in a 
consolidated school district is $275,365.00. 
If the school levy is 27 mills on the dollar, 
what amount of money will be raised for 
school purposes? 

10. How would you find the number of 
acres in a field? If given the distance 
that a train moves in a given time, how 
would you find the rate per hour? 

Lesson XIV 

ARITHMETIC 
5-7-20 

1. Define: unit, fraction, sum, quotient, 
discount. 

2. Write out fully the solution of the 
following problem: How many square 
feet in a surface 8 feet long and 6 feet 
wide? 

3. A farmer sold a team for $440, but 
did not receive his pay for them until 1 
year and 6 months after the sale. He had 
at the same time a cash offer of $400 for 
them. Did he gain or lose by the transac- 
tion, money being worth 8% per annum? 

4. The premium paid for insuring a 
building at 1%% was $600. For what was 
the building insured? 

5. A house was sold for $1,800 which 
was 20% less than it cost. What was the 
cost of the house? 

6. What will it cost to seed a 15 acre 
field in wheat pt $1.90 a bushel if it takes 
75 pounds to the acre? 

7. In a certain rural school there are 



30 pupils enrolled. If the average daily 
attendance has been 24, what was the per 
cent of attendance? 

8. Write in words: .0173, 69%%, 
2(4+3), CXIX, 75309. 

9. Write the table for square measure. 
In what two ways would a knowledge of 
it be beneficial? 

10. Divide 74.7 by .083. Multiply .031 
by 2%. 

Lesson XV 

ARITHMETIC 
4-8-21 

1. Suppose a 40 acre field planted to 
corn for five years in succession produces 
60 bushels per acre the first year, 55 the 
second, 43 the third, 33 the fourth, and 50 
the fifth, what will be the value of the corn 
grown in the 5 years at 40 cents per 
bushel? 

2. If a landlady receives $60 for board- 
ing 3 men 5 weeks, how much should she 
receive for boarding 7 men 4 weeks? 

3. A field is 80 rods wide and 100 rods 
long, how many acres does it contain? 

4. A wheat field is 86 rods by 80 rods. 
It yields 860 bushels. What is the yield 
per acre? What would the owner receive 
for it at $1.58 per bushel? 

5. How many cubic inches in a tank 5 
feet in diameter and 4 feet deep? 

6. What is the amount on $500 at 6% 
for 3 years, 6 months and 10 days? 

7. A man has property valued at $24,- 
000. What will be his tax on % valuation 
if the levy is 36 mills? 

8. A commission merchant sells for a 
factory 6700 pounds of cheese at 27 cents 
a pound. He charges 3% commission. 
What sum should he remit to his prin- 
cipal? 

9. A tank is 6% feet long, 4% feet wide, 
and 2% feet deep. How many gallons of 
water does it contain? 

10. An automobile is found to run 180 
miles on 16 gallons of gasoline. At this 
rate how much does it cost for gasoline 
for a season's run of 7650 miles, if gaso- 
line cost 26% cents per gallon? 

Lesson XVI 

ARITHMETIC 
5-6-21 

1. Draw a township and number the 
sections. Locate the southeast quarter of 
section 7. 

2. What are a man's school taxes on a 
farm with an assessed valuation of $5,235, 
if the general school levy is 35 mills, and 
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3. What is the cost of running an auto- 
mobile for a year when the original cost 
of the machine is $900, license $10, insur- 
ance $20, depreciation 30%, garage rent 
$7.00 per month, oil, repairs, etc., $50, and 
gasoline $104? 

4. From the product of 2987 and 78, 
take their sum. 

5. Divide 916875 by 894. 

6. Multiply .0045 by .098. 

7. Define: unit, fraction, sum, divisor, 
product. 



8. Find the simple interest on $750 for 
two years, three months, and fifteen days 
at 6%. 

9. A clerk receives $25 per week and he 
pays $7 per week for his board, $250 per 
year for clothes, and $125 per year for other 
expenses. How much does he save in a 
year? 

10. What will it cost to plaster the 
walls and ceiling of a room 14 feet square 
and 10 feet high at 55c per square yard, 
making no allowance for openings? 



Mental Arithmetic 



Lesson I 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
4-8-15 

(Conductor will read problems, giving pupils two 
minutes for each. Write answers only.) 

1. If breakfast costs 20 cents, dinner 
45 cents and supper 45 cents, what is the 
cost of food for the day? 

2. A box of soil when wet weighs 54 
ounces and when dry 36 ounces. How 
much water did it lose in drying? 

3. Allowing 15 minutes for each pound, 
how many hours will it take to roast a 
10-pound turkey? ■ 

4. A farmer sold 5 loads of wheat of 
60 bushels each at $1 a bushel. How much 
did he get for the wheat? 

5. If a boy feeds his chickens 7 pecks 
of corn in 14 days, how many quarts does 
he feed them per day? 

6. If three men can husk a field of 
corn in 12 days, how long will it take 4 
men to do the work? 

7. In an examination a pupil missed 3 
out of 10 questions. What per cent were 
right? 

8. How many sevenths in four and one- 
seventh? 

9. I buy 7 oranges for 5 cents each. 
How much change should I receive from 
$1? 

10. I buy lace at 15c a yard and sell it 
at 20 cents a yard. Find the gain on 5 
yards. 

Lesson II 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
5-7-15 

(Conductor will read problems, giving pupils two 
minutes for each. Write answers only.) 

1. In a certain school there are 24 boys 
and 16 girls. How many pupils in the 
school? 

2. At noon the temperature was 88° 



and at midnight 69°. How many degrees 
had it fallen? 

3. How much change should I receive 
out of 50 cents after paying for 3 pounds 
of beef at 15 cents a pound? 

4. Edith paid 15 cents a yard for 6 
yards of gingham and 5 cents for a spool 
of thread. Find the cost of her dress. 

5. If apples cost $1.20 per bushel and 
are sold at 40 cents per peck, what is the 
gain on 1 bushel? 

6. A farmer sells one-half dozen eggs 
to one man and three-fourths dozen to 
another. How many eggs does he sell? 

7. A dealer pays $15 apiece for over- 
coats, and sells them at a gain of 20%. 
What is the selling price? 

8. A farmer can build a fence in 5 
days. What part of it can he build in 3 
days? 

9. If apples sell at the rate of 2 for 5 
cents, what will 1 dozen cost? 

10. A man is 48 years old. In how 
many years will he be three score and 
ten? 

Lesson III 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
3-9-16 

1. How many weeks in two and a half 
years? 

2. Seventy-two is how many times 4? 

3. What is the cost of 30 oranges at 
40c a dozen? 

4. How many rods in 2% miles? 

5. If 9 desks cost $225, what will 15 
desks cost? 

6. What is the interest on $400 for 3 
months at 6%? 

7. Two-fifths of 25 is five-sixths of 
what number? 

8. Increase 18 by 33y 3 % of itself. 

9. y 2 plus % plus V 6 equal what? 



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10. Find 66% of $1200. 

Write analyses for the following prob- 
lems: 

11. I paid $9 for a cord of wood, and 
% as much for a ton of coal: At that rate 
find the cost of 10 tons of coal. 

12. A barrel of syrup contained 42 gal- 
lons; five-sevenths of it was sold at 60 
cents a gallon. How much was received 
for what was sold? 



and 9 ft. long. How many sq. ft. of ground 
does it roll in one revolution? 

7. If a boy walks 2% miles in 35 min- 
utes, how many miles will he walk in an 
hour, at the same rate? 

8. A room is 3 ft. 8 in. longer than it is 
wide. It is 17 ft. long. How wide is it? 

9. Write all the prime factors of 120. 

10. What is the total number of days in 
the first three months of the present year? 



Lesson IV 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
4-14-16 

All results are to be secured mentally. Use pen 
or pencil only in writing answers. 

1. How many days in seven and two- 
sevenths weeks? 

2. Three-fourths of S per cent is what 
per cent, of 30%? 

3. Paid 70 dollars for a horse, which 
was seven-fifths of the value. What is the 
value of the horse? 

4. How many fourths in seven? 

5. What is the interest on one dollar 
at 6% for six months? 

6. y 2 Plus % plus Vi equal? 

7. What is the cost of 21 bananas at 20 
cents a dozen? 

8. How many feet in three and one- 
half yards? 

9. How many pints in three and one- 
half gallons? 

10. In a list of 80 words, a boy mis- 
spelled 16. What per cent did he spell 
correctly? 

Lesson V 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
5-5-16 

(Conductor will read problems, giving pupils two 
minutes for each. Write answers only. ) 

1. A man spends 25% of his annual 
income of $1600 for rent. How much rent 
does he pay? 

2. Give the cost of the berries in a 
dozen qt. cans when iy 2 qts. of fresh 
berries @ 10c per qt. are required for 1 
qt. of canned berries. 

3. After giving away 33y 3 % of her 
cherries, Ruth had 20 left, (a) How many 
had she at first? (b) How many did she 
give away? 

4. If a street is a mile long and 60 ft. 
wide, how many miles must a watering 
cart travel to sprinkle it, if the cart 
sprinkles 15 ft. wide? 

5. What is the interest on $484 for 2 
mo. @ 6%? 

6. A roller is 22 ft. in circumference 



Lesson VI 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
3-22-17 

( Conductor will read problems, giving pupils two 
minutes for each. Write answers only.) 

1. In an orchard there are 36 apple 
trees, 19 pear trees and 40 peach trees. 
How many trees in the orchard? 

2. To a man I owe $16 I gave $4 in 
money and a ton of hay. What was the 
value of the hay? 

3. At the rate of 18 miles per hour, 
how far will an automobile travel in 3 
hours? 

4. At what time must a 5 pound chicken 
be put into the oven in order to serve it 
at 12 o'clock, if each pound requires 15 
minutes for roasting? 

5. At $12 a ton how many tons of hay 
can I buy for $168? 

6. Three-eighths of a yard of cloth costs 
30 cents. Find the cost of three-fourths 
of a yard. 

7. What per cent of 12 is 6? Of 25 is 
20? 

8. I buy sugar for three-fifths of a dol- 
lar, cloth for four-fifths and ribbon for 
two-fifths. How much change do I get 
if I pay with a $2 bill? 

9. If 3 men can build a fence in 6 days, 
how long will it take 2 men to build it? 

10. How many sixths in three and five- 
sixths? 

Lesson VII 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 

4-20-17 
(Write answers only on paper.) 

1. A man sold a horse for $63 and 
gained 2/7 of the cost. How much did he 
gain? 

2. A trader having $80, gave 9/16 of it 
for sheep, at $3 each. How many sheep 
did he buy? 

3. A stick of timber stands 1/12 in the 
earth, % in the water and the rest in the 
air. What part is in the air? 

4. A lady bought 10 5/9 yards of mus- 
lin. After using 6% yards, how many 
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5. At 6I/4 cents a pound, how many 
pounds of starch can be bought for $1%? 

6. A teamster hauled 9 loads of hay, 
each weighing % of a ton. What was 
the total weight? 

7. If 7 horses require 84 bushels of 
oats for a certain time, how many bushels 
would 12 horses require? 

8. The product of two numbers is 156. 
If 12 is one of them, what is the other? 

9. Bought lemons at 4 for 5 cents and 
sold them at 5 for 4 cents. What did I lose 
on each lemon? 

10. A and B rented a pasture for $30. 
A pastured 6 cows and B, 9 cows. What 
should each pay? 

Lesson VIII 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
5-11-17 

(Conductor will read problems; pupils write re- 
sults only.) 

1. Find interest on $500 at 5% for 1 
yr., 6 mo. 

2. James lost 12% of his money. He 
lost $60. How much did he have at first? 

3. How many square feet in a triangu- 
lar plot of ground which is 40 feet wide 
and 120 feet long? 

4. Mary is sent to the store with $5.00. 
She buys a collar for 50c, a pair of hose 
for 50c, an apron for 95c. How much 
change should the merchant give her? 

5. At 16%c each, how many spellers can 
be bought for $6.00. 

Lesson IX 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
4-12-18 

(Conductor will read problems, giving pupils two 
minutes for each. Write answers only.) 

1. 15 plus 6, divided by 3, times 7, plus 
6, divided by 11, plus 5, times 8, minus 2, 
divided by 8, equal? 

2. When eggs are 40 cents per dozen, 
what will 30 eggs cost? 

3. At what time must I get up to take 
a train at 7:30, if it takes 20 minutes to 
get breakfast, 30 minutes to eat, 25 min- 
utes to dress and 30 minutes to drive to 
the station? 

4. It rained %-inch on Monday, %-inch 
on Tuesday, and J4-inch on Wednesday. 
How much did it rain altogether. 

5. If three men can build a fence in 6 
days, how long will it take two men to 
build it? 

6. John paid $40 for a bicycle which 
was 2 /7 of the price he would pay for a 
motorcycle. What did the motorcycle 
cost? 



7. At $2% per dozen for photographs, 
what is the cost of each? 

8. What is the interest on $500 for 5 1 /. 
years at 6%? 

9. If you own $5.00 of stock in a base- 
ball club and the stock goes 10% above par, 
how much is it then worth? 

10. In a list of 150 words, Henry missed 
15. What per cent did he spell correctly? 

Lesson X 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC ' 
5-9-18 

(Conductor will read problems, giving pupils two 
minutes for each. Write answers only.) 

1. If four men can build a fence in eight 
days, ho x w long will it take two men to 
build it? 

2. What is the interest on $400 for four 
years and six months at 6%? 

3. At $100 per acre, what will a quarter 
section of land cost? 

4. Twelve plus fifteen, divided by nine, 
plus four, times five, minus seven, divided 
by four, times seven, plus one, divided by 
five, plus two, plus nine, divided by three, 
equal? 

5. Find the cost of 10 barrels of apples, 
when two barrels cost $4.50. 

6. 3/7 of 21 is 3/10 of what number? 

7. A man's salary is $150 per month. 
He spends % of it for clothing and other 
expenses. How much does he save in a 
year? 

8. A grocer sold flour last week at $1.50 
per sack and this week at 10% advance on 
last week's selling price. Find the price of 
flour per sack this week. 

9. What is the difference between % of 
V 2 and % of 1? 

10. If apples sell at the rate of three 
for five cents, what will one dozen cost? 

Lesson XI 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
4-11-19 

(All results are to be secured mentally. Fif- 
teen minutes for entire list.) 

1. What will 6y 2 gallons of milk cost 
at lie per quart? 

2. How many apples can be purchased 
for 35c if one apple costs 3%c? 

3. James sold his house for $1500.00, 
which was % of what he paid for it, what 
per cent did he lose? 

4. Frank is 16 years old and Jane is % 
as old. The sum of their ages is equal 
to % of their father's age. How old is 
the father? 

5. John lost 4/9 of his money and had 
50c left. How much had he at first? 



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6. I have 210 bushels of wheat and 
sell 20% of it. How many bushels have 
I left? 

7. What is the interest of $300.00 for 
3y 2 years at 6%? 

8. How many square rods in 6 acres? 

9. % of 15 is % of what number? 

10. How many minutes are 15 thirds of 
an hour? 



Lesson XII 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
5-9-19 
(Conductor of examination to read question, 
answers only required. Time allowed, 3 minutes 
to each problem.) 

1. What is the interest of $500 for iy 2 
years at 6%? 

2. What will six dozen of oranges cost 
at the rate of three oranges for five cents? 

3. In an examination a pupil missed 
four out of ten questions. What per cent 
were right? 

4. How much change should I receive 
out of 75 cents after paying for three 
pounds of sugar at 15 cents per pound? 

5. A farmer sold % of his horses and 
then had 30 horses remaining; how many 
had he at first? 

6. How many forties in a section of 
land? 

7. A farmer sells one-sixth of his sheep 
to one person and three-fourths to another. 
How many sheep does he sell? 

8. Three-fourths of 80 is % of what 
number? 

9. Find the cost of nine barrels of apples 
at $3.40 per barrel. 

10. If apples cost $1.25 per bushel and 
are sold at the rate of 40 cents per peck, 
what is the gain on one bushel? 



Lesson XIII 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
3-26-20 

Write out complete analyses of: 

1. 80 is % of what number? 

2. If 2 men can husk a field of corn in 
12 days, how long will it take 4 men to 
do the work? 

3. A boy spent $12, which was 16%% 
of his money. How much had he at first? 

4. If a merchant buys an article for $60 
and sells it for $75 what per cent does he 
gain? 

5. What will it cost to excavate for a 
cellar 12 feet long, 10 feet wide and 6 feet 
deep at 70c per cu. yard? 



(Write answers only. Do all work mentally. 
Examiner should hand each pupil a list of ques- 
tions and allow ten minutes for the answers.) 

1. How many sq. rds. in 10 acres? 

2. Write the equivalent fractions for the 
following per cents: 20, 12y 2 , 66%, S7V 2 , 
8%. 

3. Take the sq. root of 64, and multiply 
it by 2 times 3. From the result take the 
difference between 9 and 17, and to this 
result add the product of 4 and 6. 

4. If milk sells at 12c a quart, what 
will 1 gallon, 1 quart, 1 pint cost? 

5. What will be the interest on $500 at 
6% for 2 years and 6 months. 



Lesson XIV 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 
5-7-20 

Write out the solution in full: 

1. What is the interest on $400 for 2 
years, six months, and 15 days, at 6% 
per annum? 

2. What will be the cost of 2 pecks, 3 
quarts of beans at 20 cents a quart? 

3. If 2 men can do a piece of work in 
12 days how long will it take 3 men to do 
the same work? 

4. How many board feet of lumber in a 
plank 6 feet long, 6 inches wide, and 2 
inches thick? 

5. If % of a number is 16 what is iy 2 
times the number? 

(Write answers only. Do all work mentally. 
Examiner should hand each pupil a list of ques- 
tions and allow ten minutes for the answers.) 

1. How many square rods in 4% acres? 

2. % + %+l^=? 

3. y 2 xv 3 = ? %^3=? 

4. If 25% of a man's money is $40, what 
is 12 1 / 2 >% of his money? 

5. What will 60 apples cost if bought 
at 5 for 2 cents? 



Lesson XV 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 

Examiners will detach PART II before handing 
out this list. 

PART I 
Write complete analyses of the follow- 
ing: 

1. If a nock of 42 Plymouth Rock chick- 
ens average 72 eggs a year each and the 
average price per dozen is 21 cents, what 
is the value of the eggs? 

2. James White shipped a can of cream 
each day during the month of September. 
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the can alone weighing 12 pounds, what 
was Mr. White's cream check at the end 
of the month, cream being worth 32 cents 
per pound? 

3. If % of a pound of coffee costs 24 
cents how many eggs at 2 cents each will 
pay for a pound of coffee? 

4. A steer on .foot weighs 1325 pounds, 
when dressed it weighed 795 pounds. The 
dressed beef was what per cent or what 
part of the live weight? 

5. Find the cost of insuring a house 
worth $6400 at % of its value, premium 
being one per cent. 



PART II 

(Write answers only. Do all work mentally. 
Examiner should hand each pupil a list of ques- 
tions and allow ten minutes for the answers.) 

1. How many acres of land in a field 80 
rods long and 20 rods wide? 

2. A quart of water weighs 2 pounds. 
What is the weight of 25 gallons of water? 

3. If hail damages a corn field to the 
extent of $8 per acre, what is the damage 
to a quarter section of land? 

4. A farmer employs a boy to pull 
cockle burrs from his field. If the boy 
works 4 days of ten hours each at 15 cents 
per hour, what does he receive at the end 
of the time? 

5. What is the value of two pounds and 
eight ounces of butter at 40 cents per 
pound? 



Lesson XVI 

MENTAL ARITHMETIC 

5-6-21 

Examiners will detach PART II before handing 
out this list. 

PART I 

Write a complete analysis of the follow- 
ing: 

1. If land is worth $160 per A., what 
will 1% A. cost? 

2. A town has a population of 24,000 
which is a gain of 20% in ten years. What 
was the population ten years ago? 

3. A merchant bought tablets at $2.50 
per hundred and sold them at 5c each. 
Find the gain per cent. 

4. Add y 2 , %, %. 

5. Frank earns $45 and board while 
John earns $60 and pays $25 board. Which 
has the most net return? 

PART II 

(Write answers only. Do all work mentally. 
Examiner should hand each pupil a list of ques- 
tions and allow ten minutes for the answers.) 

1. What is the interest on $300 for 3 
years at 6%? 

2. A farmer harvested 800 bushels of 
grain. He sold one-eighth of his crop. 
How many bushels did he have left? 

3. A man's yearly income is $2,000. His 
expenses amount to $1,650. How much 
does he save in a year? 

4. What is % of 9 times 8? 

5. Frank has 4 dimes, 4 nickles and 4 
cents in his bank. His sister has J4 as 
much in her bank. How much has his 
sister? 



Geography 



Lesson I 

GEOGRAPHY 

4-8-15 
(Answer ten) 

1. Name and locate the mountain sys- 
tems of each continent and give the direc- 
tions in which they extend. 

2. Name four of the greatest wheat 
raising countries of the world. Which of 
these do not export wheat largely? Why? 

3. What, where and for what noted is 
each of the following: London, Pekin, 
Mediterranean, Niagara, Panama? 

4. Define the following: cape, bay, es- 
tuary, promontory. 

5. Draw outline map of Nebraska, lo- 
cating capital and largest city. 

6. Name the three principal railroad 
systems of Nebraska. Locate. 



7. Give three ways in which Western 
Nebraska can be made more productive. 

8. Name three plains of South Amer- 
ica and tell for what each is noted. 

9. (a) Name two leading exports of 
the United States. Tell from what city 
each is exported, (b) Name two imports 
and from where imported. 

10. What are the principal occupations 
of the people of Australia? 

11. Give the reason why so much of 
northern Africa is desert. 

12. Draw a map of your county, locat- 
ing towns and villages. 

Lesson II 

GEOGRAPHY 

5-7-15 

1. What is a resource? An industry? 

2. Why were cattlemen opposed to the 
settlement of Nebraska? 



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3. Why are cattle raised in one part 
of Nebraska and fitted for market in 
another part? 

4. Give four reasons why western and 
central Nebraska should increase in popu- 
lation. Would such development benefit 
Omaha and Lincoln? If so, how? 

5. Give location and purpose of the 
Panama Canal. 

6. Name five important exports of the 
United States. 

7. Write ten lines describing the prin- 
cipal industries and products of Australia. 

8. Define: island, peninsula, cape, 
promontory, strait. 

9. Name the leading exports of South 
America. 

10. Name countries leading in the pro- 
duction of cotton, coffee, tea, silk, wool 

Lesson III 

GEOGRAPHY 
3-9-16 

1. Define latitude and longitude, and 
explain their uses. 

2. Locate a delta, a volcano, a penin- 
sula, a glacier, a desert. 

3. How does the Dominion of Canada 
compare with the United States as to size, 
climate, natural resources and products? 

4. What are the chief river systems of 
South America? 

5. Where are the following cities: 
Madrid, Manila, Moscow, Chattanooga, 
Honolulu? 

6. What are the great waterways for 
internal navigation in the United States? 

7. Prom what localities of the United 
States are the following products ob- 
tained: wheat, copper, lumber, cotton, iron, 
corn, tobacco? 

8. Locate the principal grain regions of 
Europe. 

9. Give location and extent of the Him- 
alaya Mountains. 

10. Draw an outline map of Nebraska, 
showing the principal river, largest city, 
the capital, the sand hills, and the three 
principal railroads. 



3. Name and locate four important 
navigable rivers of the world. 

4. Name five important cities in Eurasia 
and tell in what country each is located. 

5. What country competes with the 
United Sates in the production of wheat? 
Of iron? Of butter? Of eggs? Of cotton? 

6. In what direction does the Panama 
Canal run? What cities at the ends of the 
canal? 

7. In what part of Nebraska do we find 
artesian wells? Springs? Clear streams? 

8. Lo.cate five of the following: Dis- 
trict of Columbia, Philippines, Mexico, 
Cuba, London, Argentina, Volga. 

9. What and where are any five of the 
following: Lisbon, Alps, Rhine, Rio 
Grande, Omaha, Chili, Arctic. 

10. Draw a hemisphere and on it name 
and locate the five zones. 

Lesson V 

GEOGRAPHY 

5-5-16 

1. Compare rainfall and production of 
eastern and western Nebraska. 

2. Name the two chief industries of Ne- 
braska.' Name our chief products. 

3. Name an important product of each 
of the following countries: Brazil, China, 
France, Ceylon, the West Indies. 

4. What is the form of government in 
the United States? In France? In Ger- 
many? In England? In Russia? In 
Mexico? In Japan? In China? In Bel- 
gium? In India? 

5. Write ten lines on position, size, 
shape, drainage and surface of Africa. 

6. Where are the following found: dia- 
monds, coal, gold, silver, iron? 

7. What three things give rise to manu- 
facturing in New England states? 

8. What and where are these: Omaha, 
Greece, Congo, Nile, Sahara, Pekin, Petro- 
grad, Fujiyama, Chili, Siberia? 

9. Write ten lines on Egypt and the 
Nile Valley. 

10. Compare Africa and South America 
in regard to extent, coast line, mountains, 
climate, rivers and productions. 



Lesson IV 

GEOGRAPHY 
4-14-16 

1. Draw a map of Nebraska, locating 
only the following: Platte River, Repub- 
lican River, Lincoln, Omaha. Give the 
location of your county in this map. 

2. Why is geography an important 
study? 



Lesson VI 

GEOGRAPHY 
3-22-17 

1. Define great circle and small circle 
with reference to the earth's surface, and 
give an illustration of each. 

2. (a) What is the latitude of the 
North Pole? (b) Where would a place 
having zero longitude be located? 



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3. What are ocean currents, and how 
do they affect climate? Give one illus- 
tration. 

4. Give location and one fact of inter- 
est about each of the following: Liver- 
pool, _ Yukon, Himalaya, Manila, Amazon. 

5. (a) What is a river basin? (b) A 
river system? 

6. (a) Name five important cities lo- 
cated on the Mississippi, (b) Five on the 
Great Lakes. 

7. (a) Locate the five largest cities of 
Nebraska, (b) Name the five most im- 
portant interior rivers of Nebraska. 

8. Bound your county. 

9. Name one of the principal products 
of each of the following: California, Bra- 
zil, Michigan, France, China, Japan, Ha- 
waii, Persia, Arabia, Pennsylvania. 

10. (a) Give reasons for the rapid 
growth of San Francisco since 1849. (b) 
Tell of its present condition and its future 
prospects. 



Lesson VII 

GEOGRAPHY 

4-20-17 

1. Why do not the people of the Philip- 
pine Islands have cellars under their 
houses as we do? Describe their houses 
and explain why they are built so differ- 
ently from ours, not taking into considera- 
tion the class of people there. 

2. Discuss the Philippines as to cli- 
mate, soil, productions, forests, character 
of the people. 

3. Draw a map of your county, locating 
township, towns, R. R., streams. 

4. Draw a map of Nebraska, putting in 
streams, capital, metropolis and your own 
county seat. 

5. Name and locate the different divis- 
ions of time in the U. S. 

6. Discuss the reasons for the present 
prices of wheat and corn as compared 
with the prices five years ago. 

7. Make a list of farm products com- 
mon to S. A. and U. S. Name some prod- 
ucts that are extensively raised in one 
and not in the other. 

8. Give several reasons why South 
America has not developed as rapidly as 
the United States. 

9. Is it an advantage or a disadvantage 
to South America that it is divided into so 
many more countries than the United 
States? Why? 

10. Locate the arid sections of both 
North America and South America and 
give reasons for lack of rain. 



Lesson VIII 

GEOGRAPHY 

5-11-17 
(Answer ten) 

1. What generally is the surface of Ne- 
braska? Where are the highest and low- 
est sections? 

2. What is the chief product of the 
southern states? The chief industry? 
(Discuss these two topics.) 

3. What is Eurasia? Name four riv- 
ers in Eurasia and tell in what direction 
they flow. 

4. Name the largest city in Europe; in 
the United States. Tell two things of im- 
portance about each of these cities. 

5. What form of government has Ger- 
many, England, France, Sweden, Russia? 

6. Why do the people of Europe come 
to the United States and become citizens 
of this country? What nations are repre- 
sented in our country? 

7. Name two things we eat or drink 
which we import from Asia. What do we 
export to Europe? What do we import 
from Europe? 

8. What are exports? Imports? 

9. What constitutes a good harbor? Tell 
where some good harbors are found in 
America. Why has Australia so few good 
harbors? 

10. The Middle Atlantic States do a 
great deal of manufacturing. Why do 
they not farm? Name five articles manu- 
factured. 

11. Name and locate the important riv- 
ers of Nebraska in the order of their size. 

12. Where is the loess region in Ne- 
braska? The sandhill region? 



Lesson IX 

GEOGRAPHY 

4-12-18 

1. Name the five leading countries of 
Europe and give the capital of each. 

2. How has the present war affected the 
industries of the United States? 

3. Define and give example of (a) 
Peninsula; (b) Strait; (c) Cape; (d) Is- 
land. 

4. Name and locate three important 
mountain systems in the world. 

5. Name the zones and give reasons for 
their boundaries. 

6. What are ocean currents, and how do 
they affect climate? Give one illustration. 

7. Name three types of government. 
Give an example of each. 



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8. Into what topographic regions is the 
surface of Nebraska divided? 

9. Bound Nebraska by States. By Lati- 
tude. By Longitude. 

10. Draw an outline map of Nebraska, 
locating principal rivers, five largest cities, 
indicating the metropolis and capital and 
locating your county and county seat. 



Lesson X 

GEOGRAPHY 

5-10-18 

1. Draw a map of Nebraska and locate 
the following therein: 

a. Platte, Republican, Niobrara rivers. 

b. Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Mc- 

Cook, Alliance. 

c. Bound Nebraska by states, by lati- 

tude, by longitude. 

d. How many counties are in the state 

of Nebraska? 

e. Name three railroads in Nebraska. 

2. Describe the climate of Nebraska, the 
soil, the surface slope. 

3. Name one or more natural resources 
of Nebraska. 

4. Name the leading industry of Nebras- 
ka. Name three other industries. Name 
the main products of the industries you 
have named. 

5. State definitely what causes the dif- 
ferent seasons of the year. 

6. What is a glacier, canyon, geyser, 
desert, an iceberg, a mountain, river, val- 
ley, lake, gulf, cape, an island? 

7. Locate and describe as fully as you 
can the Panama canal. 

8. How many states in the United States 
of America? Name ten and give the cap- 
ital city of each. 

9. Name and locate three important 
mountain systems of the world. 

10. Why is a study of geography im- 
portant? 

Lesson XI 

GEOGRAPHY 
4-11-19 

1. Why is the study of geography im- 
portant? 

2. Compare South America and North 
America in production and commerce. 

3. Name the form of government in the 
following: United States, England, France, 
Japan, Mexico. Which is the better and 
why? 

4. Where are the following found in 
the United States: coal, wheat, iron, gold 
and lumber? 



5. Why do the New England states have 
manufacture and we agriculture? 

6. Name two products of the United 
States we export in large quantities and 
two products we import in large quantities. 

7. Why have so many people come from 
foreign countries to the United States to 
live and so few leave the United States? 
Give two or more reasons. 

8. Why are cattle raised in one part of 
Nebraska and fitted for market in another 
part? Tell in which part they are raised 
and in which part they are fitted for mar- 
ket. 

9. Name three possessions of the 
United States and give one product of 
each of two of them. 

10. Name and locate two mountain sys- 
tems in the U. S. Name three products 
of each system. 

Lesson XII 

GEOGRAPHY 

5-9-19 

1. Bound Nebraska. Name and locate 
three cities, two rivers, and two railroads 
in Nebraska. 

2. Name and locate three main topo- 
graphical regions of Nebraska and give 
products of each. Name three important 
industries of this state. 

3. Give latitude and longitude of the 
United States. Name the waters that touch 
it and describe its climate. 

4. Locate the wheat, corn, cotton, to- 
bacco, sugar, lumber, coal, iron and cattle 
producing regions of the United States. 

5. Name four important seaports in 
United States, two in South America, one 
in Australia, three in Asia and five in 
Europe. 

6. Define: axis of earth, the poles, lati- 
tude, longitude, equator, tropics, arctic cir- 
cle, and prime meridian. 

7. Name the seasons of the year and 
tell what causes them. What causes day 
and night? 

8. Name the oceans and continents in 
the order of their size. 

9. Name three principal products in the 
torrid zone, five in the temperate and 
three in the frigid zone. 

10. Name and locate four great moun- 
tain systems and six important river sys- 
tems of {he world. 

11. Name and locate four cantonments 
of the United States and tell how the men 
were selected and cared for in these camps. 

12. Name and locate three cities, two 
rivers and two battle grounds of impor- 
tance in the war which is just closing. 



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Lesson XIII 

GEOGRAPHY 
3-26-20 

1. Draw a map of Nebraska. Indicate 
and name four important rivers. 

2. Name the chief industry of Nebraska. 
Name five products of this industry. 

3. Locate the following regions in Ne- 
braska: Sand Hills, Loess, High Plains, 
Bad Lands. 

4. Name three important resources and 
three important industries of Nebraska. 

5. Define: cape, plateau, erosion, longi- 
tude, import. 

6. Where in the United States are the 
great oil wells? What are the principal 
products made from petroleum? 

7. Name and locate five large seaports. 

8. Name and locate the zones and give 
the general climate of each. 

9. Name two wheat producing states; 
two cotton producing states; two manufac- 
turing states; two lumber producing states; 
two ore producing states. 

10. Name and locate three groups of 
islands owned by the United States. Of 
what value are they to us? 



Lesson XIV 

GEOGRAPHY 

5-7-20 

1. Draw an outline map of Nebraska 
showing the location of four important 
rivers. 

2. Briefly describe the different seasons 
in Nebraska. 

3. Name and locate five great river 
systems of the world. 

4. Name the six continents or grand di- 
visions in order of their size. 

5. Locate two great mining regions of 
the world; two farming regions; two fish- 
ing regions; two manufacturing regions. 

6. What is the leading industry of the 
New England States? The Southern States? 
The Central States? The Rocky Mountain 
States? The Pacific Coast States? 

7. Name and locate five great distribut- 
ing centers of the United States. 

8. What products are received from 
South American countries? What are sent 
to South American countries? 

9. Define: oasis, source, ore, sediment, 
glacier. 

10. What and where are the following: 
Canal Zone, Gibraltar, Vancouver, Duluth, 
Yosemite? 



Lesson XV 

GEOGRAPHY 
4-8-21 

1. Draw an outline map of Nebraska 
and locate four important rivers, and three 
cities. 

2. Compare the rainfall and production 
of eastern and western Nebraska. 

3. (a) Name two leading exports of 
the United States. From what parts of the 
United States do they come? 

(b) Name two imports of the United 
States and tell from what countries they 
come. 

4. Locate the following and tell what 
it is: London, Pekin, Mediterranean, Ni- 
agara, Alps, Amazon, Manila, Suez, Sahara, 
Nile. 

5. Name the five chief countries of 
Europe and some of the principal indus- 
tries of each. 

6. Draw an outline map of your county 
locating and naming the principal towns 
and cities, streams, and railroads. 

7. Name six New England states. Why 
is there so much manufacturing carried 
on in New England? 

8. Mention on« state of the United 
States producing large quantities of each 
of the following articles: copper, oil, cane 
sugar, coal, wheat. 

9. Make a drawing of the earth, show- 
ing the different zones and naming the 
circles that form their boundaries. 

10. Bound the United States. 



Lesson XVI 

GEOGRAPHY 
5-6-21 

1. Name and locate five state institu- 
tions in Nebraska. 

2. Draw an outline map of Nebraska. 
Bound it and locate the capital, the me- 
tropolis, the town in which you live, and 
the two important rivers. 

3. Name the continents in order of their 
size. Name the oceans in order of their 
size. 

4. Name five leading industries and tell 
in what part of the United States each one 
is carried on. 

5. Locate the following and tell what 
each is: New York, Panama, Andes, Miss- 
issippi, Paris, Hawaii, Washington, D. C, 
Ontario, Lincoln, Madrid. 

6. What is geography? Why is the 
study of geography important? 

7. Write definitions for the following: 
axis of the earth, latitude, longitude, trop- 
ics, prime meridian. 



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8. Locate the following: the Bad Lands, climate of Canada with that of the United 



the Niagara Falls, one oil region, one cop- 
per region, one lumber region of the United 
States. 

9. Compare the climate of Mexico with 
that of the United States. Compare the 



States. 

10. Name two large rivers that flow 
into the Arctic Ocean; two that flow into 
the Atlantic Ocean, and two that flow into 
the Pacific Ocean. 



G 



rammar 



Lesson I 

GRAMMAR 

4-8-15 
(Answer ten) 

1. Define adjective, adverb, verb. 

2. What is a transitive verb? A regular 
verb? 

3. What is a clause? Write a sentence 
containing a noun clause in the objective 
case. 

4. What is a phrase? Write a sentence 
containing an infinitive phrase. 

5. Define simple, complex and compound 
sentences. 

6. Mary attends school. Write this 
sentence in the (a) present perfect tense, 
active voice, indicative mode; (b) future 
tense, active voice, indicative mode; (o) 
past tense, active voice, indicative mode; 
(d) future tense, active voice, subjunctive 
mode. 

7. Parse nouns and pronouns in the fol- 
lowing stanza: 

"The roses are a regal troop, 

And modest folk the daisies; 
But bluebells of New England, 
To you I give my praises." 

S. Write the feminine form of man, Mr., 
prince, king, lion. 

9. Write the possessive singular and the 
possessive plural of these: child, ox, man, 
lady, boy. 

10. Diagram or analyze: "He most lives 
who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts 
the best." 

11. Parse verbs in the above sentence. 

12. Choose the correct words and re- 
write these sentences: 

(a) Every leaf and every flower (look, 
looks), as fresh as if (it, they) (was, 
were) growing in June instead of August. 

(b) My brother (lay, laid) his books on 
the table and then (lay, laid) down on the 
lounge. 



Lesson II 

GRAMMAR 

5-6-15 
(Answer ten) 

1. Having saddled our horses, we 
mounted and continued our journey across 
the trackless plain with only the north 
star to guide us. Diagram or analyze. 

2. Classify the words in above sentence 
as to parts of speech. 

3. Parse the verbs and participles. 

4. What is the construction of "Having 
saddled our horses"? 

5. What kind of a phrase is "to guide 
us"? What kind is "across the trackless 
plain"? 

6. Parse all nouns and pronouns in 
sentence under question 1. 

7. Use the following correctly in sen- 
tences: lie, lay, lain; sit, set; done, did. 

8. What is mode? Name and define 
three modes. 

9. Write three collective nouns. Three 
abstract nouns. 

10. What is a personal pronoun? A 
relative pronoun? An interrogative pro- 
noun? 

11. Give the principal parts: sell, make, 
cost, find, write. 

12. Write a brief review of one selec- 
tion you have had in eighth grade reading, 
being careful in the. use of capitals, punc- 
tuation, correct words, spelling, paragraph- 
ing, and stating your ideas clearly. 



Lesson III 

GRAMMAR 

3-9-16 
(Answer ten) 

1. Capitalize and punctuate: Mary was 
the daughter of king henrys first wife 
Catherine and was a devout catholic. 

2. Write a sentence containing (a) noun 
clause used as the subject, (b) as the ob- 
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3. Write a complex sentence containing 
an adverb clause and underscore the clause. 

4. Give the principal parts of blow, lie, 
do, see, show. 

5. Write the possessive singular and the 
possessive plural of these: mother-in-law, 
child, ox, fox, woman. 

6. Name five parts of speech and write 
sentences illustrating each. 

7. Name the different degrees of com- 
parison. What parts of speech admit of 
comparison? 

8. The infinitive in the following sen- 
tences is used as what part of speech: 
"To go to school is a privilege." "Mary 
wishes to borrow a pencil." "To save in 
youth is to provide in old age." 

9. Write sentences showing the use of 
lie and lay, see, seen and saw, sit and set, 
may and can, shall and will. 

10. What is a clause? A phrase? 

11. Diagram this sentence and parse 
the words in italic type: Such a pleasant 
cottage it was with a shiny clean stone 
floor, and curious old prints on the walls, 
and brass dishes, and a cuckoo clock in 
the corner which began shouting as soon 
as Tom appeared." 

Lesson IV 

GRAMMAR 

4-13-16 

(Answer ten) 

1. Why do we study grammar? How 
may we derive the most benefit from this 
study? 

2. Name and use in sentences, three 
classes of pronouns, two classes of ad- 
verbs. 

3. What is a clause? Classify clauses 
as to form. Classify as to use. 

4. Write plurals: quail, lady, man, buf- 
falo, wolf, money, sister-in-law, sheep, 
herd, ox. 

5. Diagram the following sentence and 
name the part of speech of each word: 
"They that seek me early shall find me." 

6. Give the feminine form of the follow- 
ing nouns: king, master, lad, lion, Mr. 

7. Write a sentence containing (a) a 
noun clause, (b) an adjective clause, (c) 
an adverb clause. 

8. Write a sentence containing a col- 
lective noun. An abstract noun. A proper 
noun. 

9. Give the principal parts: buy, lose, 
paid, blow, ring. 

10. Capitalize and punctuate: "I found 
the line in lowells vision of sir launfal said 
mary it reads now the heart is so full that 
a drop o'erfills it." 



11. Parse verbs: "He assisted the 
farmers occasionally in the lighter work 
of their farms; helped to make hay; 
mended the fences; took the horses to 
water; drove the cows to pasture and cut 
wood for the winter fire." 

Lesson V 

GRAMMAR 

5-5-16 
(Answer ten) 

1. Diagram: "The two young Cratchits 
crammed spoons into their mouths, lest 
they should shriek for goose before their 
turn came to be helped." 

2. Parse the verbs in the above sen- 
tence. 

3. Name and use in sentences three" 
classes of pronouns. 

4. Give the principal parts: work, hear, 
know, play, try. 

5. Classify the words in the following 
sentence as to parts of speech: "Ichabod 
prided himself as much upon his dancing 
as upon his vocal powers." 

6. Write a sentence containing an in- 
finitive phrase. A participial phrase. An 
adjective phrase. 

7. Define simple, complex and compound 
sentences. 

8. Classify sentences as to use. 

9. When is a verb transitive? When 
regular? 

10. Give past tense of each of these 
words: sing, run, help, fly, call, read, 
move, carry, fix, control. 

11. Name and define three classes of 
pronouns. 

Lesson VI 

GRAMMAR 

3-22-17 

(Answer ten) 

1. Write a letter ordering several ar- 
ticles from a business firm. Speak of 
money enclosed in payment. State how 
goods are to be shipped. 

2. Use correctly in sentences: eaten, 
gone, lie, blown, chose, drunk, knew, laid, 
seen, went. 

3. (a) Write three sentences illustrat- 
ing the different cases of pronouns; (b) 
three illustrating the different cases of 
nouns. Underline word and give case. 

4. (a) Name the modifications of 
nouns; (b) of verbs, (c) What modifica- 
tions are the same? 

5. Diagram: He who receives a good 
turn should never forget it; he who does 
one should never remember it. 



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6. Define sentence, clause, phrase. 

7. Underline verbs and tell whether 
active or passive voice: 

1. The man was offered a good po- 
sition by his employer. 

2. An old settler guided the soldiers 
along the field. 

3. The Savior healed the sick, com- 
forted the poor and lowly. 

4. All our fears were swept away by 
the cheering news. 

5. Will you lay your book on the 
table? 

8. Illustrate by sentences: present 
tense, past tense, future tense. 

9. Define complex sentence, compound 
sentence. Give an example of each. 

10. Use in sentences and tell the part 
of speech: fourth, east, or, that, soon. 

11. Write a sentence illustrating the 
use of the comma, the exclamation point, 
the interrogation point, the semi-colon, the 
colon. 

12. Give five rules for capital letters. 



Lesson VII 

GRAMMAR 
4-19-17 

1. Classify as to form, also as to use. 
Copy sentences: 

1. What was he? 
1 2. "Words are not dead; they are liv- 
ing things." 

3. "Hurry to school, or you'll rue it." 

4. " 'The very image of the Great 

Stone Pace!' shouted the people." 

2. Write sentences using correctly as 
subjects: committee, flock, crowd, con- 
gress, army. 

3. Define a verb and illustrate each 
part of your definition by a sentence. 

4. Classify the parts of speech under 
the following heads: substantives, assert- 
ing elements, modifying elements, connect- 
ing elements, independent elements. How 
is the preposition used? 

5. Use a collective noun in a sentence; 
use a noun as a subject; as an object, as 
nominative of address; nominative abso- 
lute; direct object; adjunct accusative; 
adverbial accusative; accusative with prep- 
osition; indirect object; in apposition; 
genitive of possession, genitive of connec- 
tion. 

6. What is the difference between the 
noun used as nominative, accusative and 
dative or as the genitive? 

7. Illustrate "antecedent" in a sentence. 



What are the demonstrative pronouns? 
What are the relative pronouns? 

8. Compose a sentence containing the 
verb "whistled" used as a transitive verb; 
change it to an intransitive verb in an- 
other sentence. 

9. Diagram on your paper and write 
out the analysis in full for the following 
sentence: You pupils whose lives are 
now so filled with joy, will be the tillers 
of the soil; the men and women of tomor- 
row; the citizens of the future. 

10. (a) Give the author of a poem you 
have learned this year. Name the poem 
and quote two or more stanzas of it. What 
other poems have you studied this year? 
(b) Name the pictures you have studied 
this year. Give the names of the artists 
of these pictures, (c) What picture did 
you like best? Why do you like it best? 



Lesson VIII 

GRAMMAR 
5-10-17 

1. Use the following verbs in sentences 
with both the direct and indirect object: 
(a) bought, (b) showed, (c) found, (d) 
gave, (e) offered. 

2. Write a letter ordering several ar- 
ticles from a store. State whether goods 
are to come by parcel post, express or 
freight, and whether you are sending 
money order, check or draft. 

3. Write a sentence containing a rela- 
tive pronoun; conjunctive pronoun; noun 
in possessive case; noun in nominative 
case by apposition. 

4. Classify sentences as to use; as to 
form. (Illustrate each). 

5. Give principle parts of the following 
verbs: go, pass, ride, sing, run. 

6. Insert correct pronouns: It is not 

it is - — . • - is going 

to tell 



a story. 

and are going to see 



7. Define "clause," "phrase," and "sen- 
tence." (Illustrate each.) 

8. Write a sentence containing a verb 
in the active voice. Change the sentence 
so as to make the verb passive. 

9. Make a check, draft or money order 
to pay for goods bought in queston No. 2. 
Illustrate in sentences present, past and 
future tense. 

10. Diagram sentence and parse the 
words in italic: 

Washington, the father. of 7m country, 
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Lesson IX 

GRAMMAR 
4-11-18 

1. Give two good reasons why we should 
study language and grammar. 

2. Name the parts of speech and give 
an example of each. 

3. What is the function of the subject 
of a sentence? Of the predicate? Of the 
object? 

4. What is voice? What does active 
voice show? Passive voice? Write a sen- 
tence having a verb in active voice. One 
having verb in passive voice. 

5. Name the classes of sentences as to 
use. As to form. Illustrate each by giving 
a sentence. 

6. What is a participle? An infinitive? 
Write a sentence containing a participle. 
An infinitive. 

7. Analyze or diagram: 

The man who buys Liberty Bonds is 
helping Ms country to win the war. 

8. Parse words in italic in No. 7. 

9. Give three rules for formation of 
plurals, and give a word to illustrate each 
rule. 

10. Write a ten-line essay on "Thrift." 
Make it practical and up-to-date, to meet 
conditions in the United States today. 

Lesson X 

GRAMMAR 
5-10-18 

1. Give the principal parts of the fol- 
lowing verbs: come, let, give, rode, tell, 
walk, sing, fly, drink, leave. 

2. Write sentences, using the word run 
as a transtive and as an intransitive verb. 
Use the word eat the same way. 

3. Write a sentence in which a clause 
is used as subject. As object. 

4. Define simple, complex and com- 
pound sentences. Give an example of each. 

5. What are the modifications of the 
noun, verb, pronoun? 

6. Give the definition for a regular or 
weak verb, for an irregular or strong verb. 
Give an example of each. 

7. Write a letter to a friend inviting 
him or her to visit you after school is out 
for vacation. 

8. John studies grammar. Write this 
sentence in the (a) present perfect tense, 
active voice, indicative mode; (b) future 
tense, active voice, indicative mode; (c) 
past tense, active voice, indicative mode; 
(d) future tense, active voice, imperative 
mode. 

9. Give the comparison of the following 



adjectives: good, beautiful, plain, good- 
natured, honest. 

10. Give the rules for the use of shall 
and will. 

Lesson XI 

GRAMMAR 
4-10-19 

1. Define a simple sentence, a complex 
sentence, a compound sentence. Give an 
example of each. 

2. Write a sentence having a clause used 
as the subject. As the object. (Under- 
line the examples given.) 

3. Name the parts of speech and give 
examples of each used in a sentence. 

4. What are the modifications of the 
noun, pronoun, verb? 

5. Define the transitive verb, intransi- 
tive verb. Give an example of each. 

6. Parse the nouns and verbs in the 
following sentence: Washington, who was 
born in Virginia, was our first president. 

7. Give the comparison of the following 
adjectives: honest, narrow, good, large, 
valuable. 

8. Give the rules for the formation of 
plurals and give a word to illustrate each 
rule. 

9. Define infinitive, participle. Give 
an example of each. 

10. Write a letter ordering several ar- 
ticles from a business firm. State amount 
enclosed. Also how goods are to be 
shipped. 

Lesson XII 

GRAMMAR 
5-8-19 

1. Give the principal parts of the fol- 
lowing verbs: see, begin, come, eat, swim, 
drink, choose, arose. 

2. Give five rules for capital letters. 
Give an example of each. 

3. Write a letter ordering several ar- 
ticles from a business firm. State how 
goods are to be shipped and speak of 
money enclosed in payment. 

4. What is a personal pronoun? A 
relative pronoun? An interrogative pro- 
noun? 

5. Compare the following adjectives: 
many, little, good, bad, much, handsome. 

6. Name the classes of sentences as to 
form; as to use. Illustrate each by giving 
a sentence. 

7. Use the following correctly in sen- 
tences: lie, lay, lain, sit, set, done, did, 
seen. 

8. What is the opposite of quick, brief, 



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correct, excellent, hopeful, clean, honest, 
deep, long, wide. 

9. Define each: gender, case, voice, 
mode, tense. 

10. Write a brief review of one selection 
you had in the eighth grade reading, being 
careful in the use of capital, punctuation, 
correct words, spelling, paragraphing, and 
stating your ideas clearly. 

Lesson XIII 

GRAMMAR 
3-25-20 

1. Define: subject, predicate, object. 
Point them out in the following sentences: 

This young man had never seen an 
aeroplane. 

Without metal tools he could not cut 
the stone. 

2. Give the principal parts of thess 
verbs: go, see, have, walk, wash. 

3. What is a clause? Write a sentence 
containing a noun clause, an adjective 
clause. 

4. What is a transitive verb, an intran- 
sitive verb? Illustrate each by a sentence. 

5. Name the part of speech of each 
word in the following: Where we now 
live the Indians roamed in the days of our 
ancestors. 

6. Write the following sentences with 
the correct word in place of the two in 
parentheses: 

Neither of these stories (is, are) very 
interesting. 

The garrison with three regiments of 
soldiers (was, were) captured. 

Either you or my sister (has, have) 
done this. 

7. Write sentences containing: 

1. A noun in the nominative case. 

2. A noun in the objective case. 

3. A noun in the possessive case. 

8. Diagram or analyze the following 
sentence: 

"Give to the world the best you have 
and the best will come back to you." 

9. Write the sentences given below 
using I, me, he, him, she, or her in place 
of the blank spaces: 

1. It was he and who went 

(I. me) 
down to the river. 

2. What were you and read- 

(he, him) 
ing? 

3. You said it was that wanted 

(he, him) 

to see me. 

4. I should not do it if I were 

(she, her) 

5. Is John taller than ? 

(I. me) 



10. Parse each word in the following 
sentence: 

The sun shines very brightly. 



Lesson XIV 

GRAMMAR 

5-6-20 

1. Classify sentences according to use 
and form. Illustrate with sentences. 

2. Use these words in sentences cor- 
rectly: come, came, saw, seen, has, have, 
had, go, went, gone. 

3. Give part of speech of each word in 
the following sentence: Lincoln's ability 
to meet an emergency was often tested. 

4. Write out the conjugation of the 
verb go in the present perfect tense. 

5. Give two uses for each of the words 
appearing in italic type: 

The man whom you saw is my father. 
Can you tell where she lives? 
I know ichose book that is. 

6. Diagram or analyze the following 
sentence: 

"Whenever he went about the village 
he was followed by a group of children." 

7. Why should one study grammar? 

8. What is a common noun, a proper 
noun? 

9. Define: voice, number, antecedent, 
clause, pronoun. 

10. Write a sentence with each of the 
following: 

a. Noun — plural number, possessive 
case. 

b. Pronoun — personal, singular, first 
person, objective case. 

c. "Verb — indicative mood, transitive, 
passive voice. 

Lesson XV 

GRAMMAR 
4-7-21 

1. What is a transitive verb, an intrans- 
itive verb? Illustrate each by a sentence. 

2. What are the modifications of the 
noun, verb? 

3. Write a sentence containing a direct 
quotation, and punctuate correctly. 

4. Diagram, or analyze, the following 
sentence and parse the words in italic 
type: u She came up the lane, with a pail 
in her hand." 

5. Write a simple sentence, a complex 
sentence, a compound sentence. 

6. Compare good, bad, late, polite, 
pretty. 

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lowing nouns: lady, potato, piano, calf, 
loaf, sheep, couple, deer, attorney, ax. 

8. Use the noun pumpkin as follows: 
As the subject of a sentence. 

As the object of a transitive verb in 
a sentence. 

As the object of a preposition in a 
sentence. 

As a possessive in a sentence. 

9. Give the principal parts of the fol- 
lowing verbs: do, come, ring, drink, go. 

10. Classify sentences: (a) with regard 
to use; (b) with regard to form; (c) illus- 
trate each. 



Lesson XVI 

GRAMMAR 
5-5-21 

1. Name the kinds of sentences as to 
use and give an example of each. Name 
the kinds of sentences as to form and 
give an example of each. 

2. Give the principal parts of the fol- 



lowing verbs: catch, do, know, see, froze, 
give, ride, dream, swim, teach. 

3. Name the tenses of the indicative 
mood. 

4. What is the difference between a 
phrase and a clause? Illustrate. 

5. What is the difference between a 
transitive and intransitive verb? Illus- 
trate. 

6. Write the plural: child, family, knife, 
man, turkey, tax, lady, tooth, mouse, and 
deer. 

7. Use these words in sentences: come, 
came, has, have, do, did, go, went, had, 
and set. 

8. Here are six verbs: lie, lay; sit, set; 
rise, raise. Use these words correctly in 
sentences. 

9. Explain the proper uses of "can" and 
"may." 

Explain the proper uses of "shall" and 
"will." 

10. Give the degrees of comparison of 
the following adjectives: good, bad, high, 
low, beautiful. 



English Composition 



Lesson I 

ENGLISH COMPOSITION 
3-26-20 

1. Write a short description of an in- 
teresting place you have seen. 

2. Relate briefly an incident that has 
come within your own experience. 

3. Pill the blank spaces with who, 
whose, or whom. 

1. The boy studies will learn. 

2. The girl book was lost is 

here. 

3. Jack is a young man can be 

trusted. 

4. Jack is a young man I can 

trust. 

5. The man we saw yesterday 

is waiting in the hall. 

4. Properly capitalize and punctuate the 
following: 

i found these lines in longfellows evan- 
geline said Mary it reads silently one by 
one in the infinite' meadows of heaven 
blossomed the silent stars the forgetme- 
nots of the angels. 

5. Imagine that school is out. Write 
a letter to your teacher. Be careful that 
you do not sign your name to the letter. 
Just sign it "Name." 



Lesson II 

ENGLISH COMPOSITION 

5-7-20 

1. Briefly tell an imaginary story hav- 
ing the following beginning: 

As I was walking through the fields 
one morning I saw a few feet from the 
path .;.... 

2. Write a letter to a seed house order- 
ing garden seeds. 

3. Write the plurals for the following 
words: lady, man, potato, wolf, money, 
brother-in-law, herd, ox, sheep, quail. 

4. Briefly describe a meeting you have 
attended. 

5. Of what value to you is the work in 
English Composition? 



Lesson III 

ENGLISH COMPOSITION 

4-7-21 

1. Write a letter to Messrs. Brandin and 
Company, Chicago, Illinois, ordering six 
pairs of shoes and eight pairs of rubber 
boots, and write the word, "Signature," 
instead of signing your name to the letter. 

2. Write five lines of poetry you have 
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studied. Use care in punctuation and capi- 
talization. 

3. Use correctly in sentences the fol- 
lowing words: done, seen, wrote, written, 
came. 

4. Explain three uses of the dictionary. 

5. Give the principal parts of the fol- 
lowing verbs: eat, take, fly, teach, learn. 

6. Give three rules for the use of cap- 
ital letters. 

7. Address an envelope properly to State 
Superintendent John M. Matzen, Lincoln, 
Nebraska, and show where the stamp 
should be placed on the envelope. 

8. Fill in the blank spaces with who, 
whose or whom: 

(a) The boy studies will learn. 

(b) The girl book was lost is 

here. 

(c) Jack is a young man can 

be trusted. 

(d) Jack is a young man I can 

trust. 

(e) The man we saw yester- 
day is waiting in the hall. 

9-10. Tell an original or imaginary 
story. (90 to 120 words.) 

Lesson IV 

ENGLISH COMPOSITION 

5-5-21 

1. Draw an envelope and address it cor- 
rectly to Mrs. James E. Johnson who lives 
at 3892 Pierce street, Baltimore, Maryland. 
Outline stamp. 

2. Use the following words correctly: 
were, say, gone, buy, catch. 



3. Of what value to one is English Com- 
position? 

4. Briefly tell an imaginary story. 
Punctuate it properly. 

5. Write the singular possessive and the 
plural possessive of man, sheep, country, 
child, city. 

6. Give three rules for the use of the 
period; two for the use of the comma. 

7. Write a letter to the superintendent 
of the high school you wish to attend, tell- 
ing him that you expect to enter next fall, 
asking when school will begin and what 
subjects will be offered in the ninth grade. 
Give him your age and home address. Sign 
"signature." 

8. Select the correct pronouns for each 
of the following sentences: 

1. You and (he, him) may go. 

2. It was he and (I, me) who went. 

3. I should go with you and (he, 

him). 

4. This is (I, me). 

5. Are you laughing at him and (I, 

me)? 

9. Arrange, punctuate and capitalize 
the following: 

brokenbow nebraska may 5 1921 dear 
friend i shall be very glad to have you 
visit our school friday May 5 1921 yours 
truly 

10. Write a business letter to Messrs. 
Ellis and Wade, at Chicago, ordering the 
following articles of merchandise: 

Two pairs of men's shoes, sizes seven 
and eight, one lady's spring hat number 
567A89, 10 yards silk number 55234. Tell 
them that you are inclosing the money 
to pay for the goods. 



Reading 



Lesson I 

READING 
4-9-15 

1. Name five selections you have read 
this year and give the author of each. 

2. Who is your favorite author? Name 
two selections he has written. Give a quo- 
tation from one of them. 

3. Name three characters in the poem, 
Evangeline, and write a statement about 
each. 

4. Tell all you can about the author of 
Evangeline. 

5. Why should we read daily papers? 
6-10. Read a selection to the examiner. 



Lesson II 

READING 

5-7-15 

1. Why is reading such an important 
subject? 

2. What is meant by emphasis? How 
would you emphasize a word when read- 
ing? 

3. Tell in your own words the story of 
some poem you have read. 

4. Give three reasons for reading the 
daily papers. 

5. Name a selection written by Long- 
fellow, Whittier, Poe, Abraham Lincoln, 
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6-10. Read a selection to the examiner. 

(May be omitted at option of examiner.) 

Lesson III 

READING 

3-10-16 

1. How may the dictionary be of use in 
studying your reading lesson? 

2. Why should everyone strive to read 
well? How may you become a good reader? 

3. What is a "memory gem"? Give one. 

4. Name five selections arid give author 
of each. 

5. Give three reasons for reading daily 
newspapers. Name one thing that is at- 
tracting much attention at present. 

6-10. Read selection to examine! 

(May be omitted at option of examiner.) 



Lesson IV 

READING 
4-13-16 

1. Why do we study reading? 

2. Why is reading our most important 
subject? Give three reasons. 

3. Would you read this selection slowly 
or rapidly, and why? 

"Slowly and sadly we laid him down, 
From the field of his fame fresh 
and gory; 
We carved not a line, we raised not a 
stone 
But we left him alone with his 
glory." 

4. Name five poets and one selection 
from each. 

5. Tell the story of some poem you have 
read. 

6-10. Read a selection to the examiner. 

(May be omitted at option of examiner.) 



Lesson V 

READING 

5-5-16 

1. Why should we read daily papers? 

2. Who is your favorite author? Tell in 
your own words the story of some selection 
from his pen. 

3. Give two quotations and name the 
author of each. 

4. Tell all you can about Longfellow. 

5. What is emphasis? Poetry? Prose? 
6-10. Read a selection to the examiner. 

(May be omitted at option of examiner.) 



Lesson VI 

READING 

3-23-17 

1. Mention three things that will help 
you to become a good reader. 

2. What is the most important topic 
now discussed in the newspapers? Name 
two others of interest. 

3. Write a stanza of some poem (not 
less than four lines). Name author. 

4. Name a selection written by any 
five: Lincoln, Whittier, Jefferson, Holmes. 
Longfellow, Lowell, Tennyson. 

5. Mark words to be emphasized: 

"Now, in building chaises, I tell you 

what, 
There is always somewhere a weakest 

spot; 
And that's the reason, beyond a doubt, 
A chaise breaks down, but doesn't wear 
out." 



Lesson VII 

READING 

4-20-17 

1. (a) What constitutes good reading? 
(b) Name some of the advantages derived 
from good reading. 

2. Write a favorite quotation and give 
the name of the author. 

3. Name four books you have read and 
the author of each. Which do you like 
best, and why? 

4. What are the differences between 
good and bad literature? 

5. Of what use are punctuation marks? 

6. Copy the following stanza and under- 
line the words which should be empha- 
sized: 

"The rich man's son inherits land and 

piles of brick and stone, 
And he inherits soft, white hands and 

tender flesh which fears the cold, 
Nor dares to wear a garment old, 
A heritage, it seems to me, one scarce 
would wish to hold in fee." 

7. What is the meaning of "piles of 
brick and stone"? 

8. What is the meaning of the second 
and third lines? 

9. What is the meaning of the last line? 

10. Rewrite the stanza in your own 
words. 



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Lesson VIII 

READING 

5-11-17 
(Answer eight) 
"I know a place where the sun is like gold, 
And the cherry blossoms burst with 
snow; 
And underneath is the loveliest nook 
Where the four-leaf clovers grow. 

"One leaf is for hope and one is for faith, 

And one is for love you know. 
But God put another one in for luck — 

If you search — you will find where they 
grow. 

"But you must have hope, and you must 
have faith, 
You must love and be strong, and so, 
If you work, if you wait, you will find the 
place 
"Where the four-leaf clovers grow." 
1-5. Write the thoughts expressed in 
this poem in your own words. 

6. Give three good reasons why you 
should be a good reader. 

7. Mark diacritically, syllabify, cross 
out silent letters and mark accent in the 
following words: magnify, deplorable, car- 
dinal, lawless, definition. 

8. Draw a line under the words which 
should be emphasized in the following sen- 
tences: 

(a) Did you pick the strawberries? 

(b) Yes, I picked them last night. 

(c) "Give me liberty or give me death!" 

(d) "Oh for boyhood's days in June!" 

9. What should you have in mind in 
preparing a reading lesson? (Give at least 
three things.) 

10. Define emphasis and accent. Illus- 
trate. 

Lesson IX 

READING 
4-11-18 

1. Mention three important things to do 
in studying a reading lesson. 

2. What are three important things to 
do in oral reading? 

3. Name two American writers of prose 
and a selection of each. 

4. Name two American writers of 
poetry, and a poem of each. 

5. (a) What is a paragraph? (b) What 
is a stanza? 

G. Of what use are punctuation marks? 

7. (a) Would you read Lincoln's Gettys- 
burg address slowly or rapidly? Why? 

(b) Would you read Mother Goose 
rhymes slowly or rapidly? Why? 



8. After each of the following, write 
a word that means almost the same: be- 
neath, ancient, dominion, vision. 

9. Draw a line under the important 
words: "Reading without purpose is saun- 
tering, not exercise. More is got from 
one book on which the thought settles, for 
a definite end in knowledge, than from 
libraries skimmed over by a wandering 
eye." 

10. Write a quotation and give the 
author. 

Lesson X 

READING 

5-9-18 

1. How may the dictionary be of use in 
studying your reading lesson? 

2. Name five poets and one selection 
written by each. 

3. Name and illustrate the use of four 
punctuation marks. 

4. Give three reasons for reading daily 
newspapers. 

5. Write ten lines on the poem "Evan- 
geline," telling briefly on what historical 
event the story of Evangeline is based, a 
summary of the story, and the best thought 
in the story. 

6. Define: articulation, accent, emph 
asis, paragraph, stanza. 

7. What is oral reading? Silent read- 
ing? 

8. What are phonics? Name five phono- 
grams. 

9. Who is your favorite author? Name 
two selections by him. 

10. Give your favorite quotation and 
name its author. 

Lesson XI 

READING 

4-10-19 

1. Give name, author and synopsis of 
your favorite poem. 

2. Why is a poor reader apt to be a 
poor scholar in school? 

3. How does the dictionary help in 
studying your reading lesson? 

4. Name five authors represented by se- 
lections in your reading book. From 
memory, write extracts from any one of 
them. 

5. What is meant by emphasis? Write 
a sentence indicating the words which 
should be emphasized. 

6. What was your greatest difficulty in 
learning to read well? How have you over- 
come this difficulty? 

7. On what historical event is Evange- 



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line based? Name four characters in the 
poem. Who wrote this poem? Describe 
Evangeline. 

8. Give authors of five of the following 
selections: Snow Bound, Vision of Sir 
Launfal, Thanatopsis, Great Stone Face, 
Star Spangled Banner, America, and the 
Children's Hour. 

9. Read any three questions aloud as 
assigned by examiner. 

10. Read as you are called upon, giving 
spirit of the occasion: 

It is for us the living, rather, to be 
dedicated here to the unfinished work 
which they, who fought here have thus 
far so nobly advanced. It is rather for 
us to be here dedicated to the ' great task 
remaining before us; — that from these 
honored dead we take increased devotion 
to that cause for which they gave the last 
full measure of devotion; — that we here 
highly resolve that these dead shall not 
have died in vain, that this nation, under 
God, shall have a new birth of freedom, 
and that government of the people, by the 
people, and for the people, shall not perish 
from the earth. — Abraham Lincoln. 

Lesson XII 

READING 

5-9-19 

1. (a) What is reading? (b) What do 
you understand the phrase "a good reader" 
to mean? 

2. Give reasons why one must become 
a good reader in order to become a good 
scholar. 

3. (a) Who is your favorite poet? (b) 
Name one of his poems and write a stanza 
from this poem. 

4. Tell how you prepare a reading les- 
son that has been assigned. 

5. Give the author of each of the fol- 
lowing: Home Sweet Home, Rip van 
Winkle, Old Ironsides, Snow-Bound, The 
Death of the Flowers, The Village Black- 
smith, Oh Captain My Captain, The Brook, 
School Days, Annabel Lee. 

6. Give the meaning of the following 
in regard to reading: emphasis, prose, 
poetry, synonyms, synopsis. 

7. Name five good books that you have 
read and give the author of each. 

8. (a) Name three patriotic selections 
that you have read this year, (b) Three 
humorous selections, (c) Three descrip- 
tive selections. 

9. What selection in reading have you 
enjoyed most this year? Give your rea- 
sons for enjoying it. 

10. Copy the following stanza. Under- 
line the words to be emphasized. Read 



from your paper as you have marked it, 
when called upon to do so. 

'An hour passed on — the Turk awoke; 
That bright dream was his last; 
He awoke — to hear his sentries shriek, 
'To arms they come! the Greek! the Greek!' 
He awoke — to die 'mid flame and smoke, 
And shout, and groan, and saber-stroke, 
And death shots falling thick and fast 
As lightnings from the mountain-cloud; 
And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, 
Bozzaris cheer his band: 
'Strike — till the last armed foe expires! 
Strike — for your altars and your fires! 
Strike — for the green graves of your sires, 
God, and your native land!'" 

Lesson XIII 

READING 

3-26-20 

1. Name five books you have read and 
the author of each. 

2. How do you prepare your reading 
lesson? 

3. What does the teacher mean when 
she says, "You read well"? 

4. Quote 6 to 10 lines from some poem. 

5. What is the main object in silent 
reading? Oral reading? 

6. In what way is reading important in 
all of your work? 

7. Explain the meaning. 
"He was a lion in the fight." 

"His hands dangled a mile out of his 

coat sleeves." 
"Her cheek was like a rose in the 

snow." 
"He kept the wolf from the" door." 
"He was snowed under at the election." 

8. What is the use of punctuation 
marks? 

9. What are some of the things that 
make a selection a good piece of litera- 
ture? 

10. Underline all words in the following 
passage which should receive emphasis: 

"Aye, tear her. tattered ensign down! 

Long has it waved on high. 
And many an eye has danced to see 

That banner in the sky; 
Beneath it rung the battle shout, 

And burst the canon's roar; 
The meteor of the ocean air 

Shall sweep the clouds no more." 

Lesson XIV 

READING 

5-7-20 
1. Who is your favorite author? Tell 
the story of some selection he has written. 



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2. What does the author mean in these 
lines? 

"Lives of great men all remind us 

We can make our lives sublime, 
And departing leave behind us 

Foot prints in the sands of time." 

3. Why should you use the dictionary? 

4. Name five authors, giving one selec- 
tion from each. 

5. What is a word picture, a memory 
gem, a patriotic selection? 

6. Write a short biographical sketch of 
some author you have studied. 

7. Name a daily newspaper, a maga- 
zine. 

8. Define: story, biography, sketch. 

9. Distinguish between prose and 
poetry. 

10. Write a favorite quotation. 

Lesson XV 

READING 

4-8-21 

1. Name some selection you have read 
this year. Give author and tell what les- 
son you learned from studying it. 

2. Write a memory gem and give the 
author. 

3. What are three important things to 
do in oral reading? 

4. Why is a poor reader apt to do poor 
work in other subjects? 

5. Write about a five line biography of 
some author you have studied. 

6. What benefit is derived from read 
ing the daily papers? 

7. Use the following words in sentences: 
receipt, loess, constitution, contagious, 
zones. 

8. Who wrote Evangeline, Old Ironsides, 
Star Spangled Banner, Snowbound, Vision 
of Sir Launfal? 

9. Name a selection written by Poe, 
Abraham Lincoln, Bryant, Tennyson, 
Washington Irving. 

10. What are three important things 
to do in studying a reading lesson? 

Lesson XVI 

READING 

5-6-21 

1. State two reasons why reading is 
such an important subject. 

2. Name one selection by each of the 
following authors: Longfellow, Bryant, 
Lowell, Whittier, and Holmes. 

3. Who wrote Great Stone Face, Snow- 
bound, Rip Van Winkle, Thanatopsis and 
the Chambered Nautilus? 



4. What selection in reading have you 
enjoyed most this year? Give two reasons 
for enjoying it. 

5. What three things should be kept in 
mind in the preparation of a reading les- 
son? 

6. What benefit is derived from the 
reading of daily papers? 

7. Write your favorite memory gem. 

8. How does the dictionary aid you in 
reading? 

9. Name three patriotic selections you 
have read. 

10. On what historical event is Evange- 
line based? Name some of the principal 
characters, in the poem. Who wrote the 
poem? 

Reading 

Before completing the eighth grade 
every pupil should be familiar with the 
biography of each of the following authors 
and be able to give a brief resume of each 
selection. Would suggest memorizing one 
of the best stanzas of each poem. 

(Practically all selections can be found in Elson's 
or Searson & Martin's Readers.) 

Great American Authors 

Washington Irving Page 111 

Rip van Winkle " 113 

The Voyage " 132 

Nathaniel Hawthorne " 139 

The Great Stone Face " 141 

My Visit to Niagara " 163 

Edgar Allen Poe " 170 

A Decent Into the Maelstrom.. " 172 

The Raven " 190 

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow... " 194 

Evangeline: A Tale of Arcadia " 197 

The Building of the Ship " 251 

John Greenleaf Whittier " 263 

Snow-Bound " 265 

The Ship Builders " 2S-5 

Oliver Wendell Holmes " 289 

The Chambered Nautilus " 291 

The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay" " 292' 

Old Ironsides " 292 

The Boys " 298 

The Last Leaf " 300 

James Russsell Lowell " 302 

The Vision of Sir Launfal " 303 

Yussouf " 215 

Sidney Lanier " 319 

The Marshes of the Glynn " 319 

(The above selections may be found in Elson's 
Grammar School Reader, Book IV. The numbers 
refer to pages in text.) 

Memorize 
America 

Star Spangled Banner 
The Flag Goes By 
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Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech 

Love of Country — Scott 

Abou Ben Adhem 

A Song for Flag Day — Wilbur Nesbit 

(The last twenty pages of Searson & Martin's 
Eighth Grade Eeader contain excellent memory 
gems.) 

Additional Suggestions of Selections to be 
Memorized 

Page 

The Bugle Song 43 

To a Waterfowl (50 

Love of Country 355 

Dedication Speech at Gettysburg. ... 374 

Reputation — Othello 104 

Wolsey and Cromwell — Lines 38 to 43 104 

Charge of the Light Brigade 22 

Destruction of Sennacherib 74 

Burial of Sir John Moore 85 

Paul Revere's Ride — "A hurry of 
hoofs in a village street" (8 lines) 

or last stanza ' 15 

To a Skylark — Seventh and last stan- 
zas 64 

Marco Bozzaris — Last stanza 82 

The Building of the Ship — Last stanza 251 
Snow-Bound — Lines 31 to 53 or 155 

to 175 265 



The Chambered Nautilus — Last stanza 291 

The "Vision of Sir Launfal — Lines 33 
to 95 303, 304 

Speech of Patrick Henry — Lines 82 
to end 350 

Supposed Speech of John Adams- 
Lines 50 to 60 367 

The American Flag — First and last 
stanzas 385 

Recessional — First and last stanzas.. 390 

(The above selections may be found in Elson's 
Grammar School Reader, Book IV. The numbers 
refer to pages. Also see Searson & Martin's Eighth 
Grade Reader.) 

British Authors 

Alfred Tennyson 
Robt. Browning 
William Shakespeare 
Walter Scott 
Robert Louis Stevenson 
Robert Burns 
William Wadsworth 
Felecia Hemans 

(Study briefly biographies and selections. May 
be found in Elson's Grammar School Readers, III 
and IV.) 



Bookkeeping 



Lesson I 

BOOKKEEPING 

3-26-20 

1. What is bookkeeping? Why should 
a person know how to keep books? 

2. What is a note, a check, a draft, a 
money order, a receipt? 

3. George W. Cummings orders 12 
Breasted Maps of the United States from 
the University Society of Chicago at $10 
each. Write the letter ordering the maps. 

4. Write the bill for the maps sent 
Mr. Cummings. 

5. Write the check of Mr. Cummings in 
payment of the bill. The check is on the 
Farmers State Bank. 

Lesson II 

BOOKKEEPING 

5-7-20 
1. Make an inventory of the following 
articles found in the desk of a pupil: 
1 Reader 85 cents, 1 Arithmetic 90 
cents, 1 Speller 35 cents, 1 Gram- 
mar 65 cents, 1 Physiology 75 
cents, 1 Geography $1.20, 1 compass 
35 cents, 2 note books each 20 
cents, 1 ruler 10 cents, and 1 Pro- 
tractor 15 cents. 



2. Horace Billings borrows $250 of 
Samuel Kent. He is to have the money for 
90 days and is to pay 8% interest. Write 
the note. 

3. John Lawson has money deposited in 
the Farmers' State Bank of Pawnee City. 
He owes • Sawyer, Barclay & Co of the 
same place an account amounting to 62 
dollars. He pays the amount by check. 
Write the check. 

4. Write the receipt for the account 
given in the third question. 

5. Which is the best way to send money 
through the mails; by check, draft, money 
order, or currency? Why? 

Lesson III 

BOOKKEEPING 

4-8-21 

1. You purchased a bill of goods from 
C. F. Williams and Company amounting to 
$25.40. You paid for the goods by check. 
Write the check. 

2. Mr. R. E. James owed you $40.50. 
He paid you today. Write a receipt for 
him. 

3. Why is a knowledge of bookkeeping 
valuable? 

4. Define or draw a note. Check. Re- 
ceipt. 



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5. James Smith borrows $10,000 from 2. Write an order to your home grocer 
Charles Brown for two years at 6%. Write for a half dozen grocery supplies. 

the note. 3. Write a grocer's statement of account 

6. How is a check, draft, or a note for above order. Receipt the bill showing 
endorsed? that payment has been made. 

7. Of what advantage is it to a person 4. Write John Jones' note to the Smith- 
to be able to write a good business letter? field National Bank for $150, payable in 6 

8. Write a business letter. months at 10% interest. 

9. Write a check for twelve dollars in 5 - Make a check from Jonn Smith to 
payment for thirty bushels of corn. (Use y° u for fifteen dollars. 

the word "Signature" instead of your name 6. Why should a person know how to 

in signing the check.) keep books? 

10. Mark Twain bought the following 7. Define each of the following: a note, 
of Johnson and Company: a draft, a check, a receipt, and a bill. 

1 sack Flour, @ $3.25 $3.25 g. Explain how a check, draft, or note, 

3 bu. Apples, @ 2.75 8.25 i s endorsed. 

10 lb Sugar ;••••,• : ' " ' A." 1,00 9. Make an inventory of the following 

Make out an itemized bill for the ac- proper ty: 2 cows, each worth $95, 1 team 

count, of horses worth $250, 1 wagon worth $85, 

1 set of harness worth $65, 1 binder worth 

Lesson IV $ 200 - 

BOOKKEEPING ^- ^ ake ou t a cash account from the 

following data: Received $25 salary and 

$10 interest on investment and you paid 

1. Answer a letter to a business man out the following: $6.50 for a pair of shoes, 

who has advertised for an office boy or $2.50 for a pair of gloves, $1.50 for a pair 

girl. of hose, and gave $2.00 for charity. 



Agriculture 



Lesson I 

AGRICULTURE 

4-8-15 

1. How does a weed differ from a use- 
ful plant? 

2. Name one bad weed the farmer has 
to contend with and tell what character- 
istics make it a bad weed, and how it can 
be kept down. 

3. Name one disease which attacks po- 
tatoes, and tell how it should be treated. 

4. Name three useful insects, and tell 
why they are useful. 

5. Are birds useful enough to make it 
wise to protect them. Give reasons for 
your answer. 

6. What is meant by fertile soil? What 
is meant by soil "wearing out"? 

7. How does a roadster, or light horse, 
differ from a draft horse? 

8. Name two beef breeds and two dairy 
breeds of cattle. 

9. How may the school grounds of your 
district be beautified? 

10. What experience have you had in 
growing and caring for plants or animals? 



Lesson II 

AGRICULTURE 

5-7-15 

1. What are agriculture bulletins? Of 
what use are they? 

2. Name two breeds of horses, hogs, 
sheep, cattle, chickens. 

3. What conditions of Nebraska climate 
do you regard as healthful? Unhealthful? 

4. How is humus of the soil formed? 

5. (a) Give the essentials of a good ear 
of corn. (b) Name five corn products. 



Lesson III 

AGRICULTURE 

3-9-16 

1. What advantages rise from testing 
seed corn ? 

2. Why does Nebraska emphasize the 
teaching of agriculture? 

3. Give five points by which you would 
judge an ear of corn. 

4. Name four breeds of cattle, four of 
horses, four of poultry and three of swine. 

5. Discuss the advantages of raising 
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6. Name five song birds and describe 
one of them, giving its appearance, habits, 
food. 

Lesson IV 

AGRICULTURE 

4-14-16 

1. How do the terms "weather" and 
"climate" differ in meaning? 

2. What is forage? Name three kinds 
of forage crops. 

3. Give a simple way of testing seed 
corn. 

4. What is meant by rotation of crops? 
Why should crops be rotated? 

5. What is meant by "dry farming?" 
By "irrigation"? Where is each practiced 
in Nebraska? 

6. Why is agricultural education so 
prominent in Nebraska? 



Lesson V 

AGRICULTURE 

5-5-16 

1. Give three ways of starting or propo- 
gating plants. 

2. How does barnyard manure lose its 
value when not properly cared for? 

3. Which is best, a very little rain 
every day or a heavy rain once a week? 
Why? 

4. Give, an effective way of controlling 
any one of these: mosquitoes, potato bug, 
chinch bug* 

5. Give three ways of fighting weeds. 
Are weeds a benefit or a detriment? Give 
three reasons for your answer. 

6. What is the difference between in- 
tensive and extensive farming? Which 
is generally practiced in Nebraska? Why? 



Lesson VI 

AGRICULTURE 
3-22-17 

1. What would you consider in buying 
an unimproved farm? An improved farm? 

2. Why do people talk so much about 
the weather? 

3. How does hot, dry air injure crops? 

4. During which months do crops grow 
most, and why? 

5. (a) Name three insects injurious to 
crops, (b) Name six song birds and de- 
scribe one of them. 

6. Why are good roads of especial im- 
portance in Nebraska? 



Lesson VII 

AGRICULTURE 

4-20-17 

1. Of what use to a plant are the stems? 
What does a plant gain by a long stem? 
How do stems grow? 

2„ What are commercial fertilizers? 
How are they used? 

3. What is the function of roots? Name 
two kinds and give example of each. 

4. Who is Luther Burbank? Tell at 
least two definite things he has done. 

5. Plan a flower scheme for a window 
box. 

6. Plan a garden plot as you should 
like to have your own, writing the names 
of the different plants in the several sec- 
tions. 

7. What are the essential points in a 
desirable school site? 

8. Explain budding, grafting. Why is 
one of these processes better for planting 
a peach tree than planting the seed or 
getting a seedling from the nursery? 

9. Name kinds of chickens that belong 
to each of the four general classes: (a) 
egg breed; (b) meat breed; (c) general 
purpose breed; (d) fancy breed. 

10. About how many eggs should a good 
hen lay in a year? Name three general 
classes of foods a hen should have regu- 
larly in order to be healthy and be a good 
layer. 



Lesson VIII 

AGRICULTURE 

5-11-17 
(Answer ten) 

1. What would you plant in your gar- 
den and how would you arrange it? (Draw 
plot and label divisions as you would ar- 
range your garden.) 

2. How would you prepare the soil for 
your garden? (Explain what time of year 
you would plow it; what kind of fertilizer 
you would use and how; how deep you 
would plow and any other points that 
enter into the preparation.) 

3. What time in the day is best for 
watering the garden? How would you 
plant lettuce or radish seed differently 
from corn or beans? 

4. How can you plan so you may have 
many of the vegetables from early in the 
summer to late in the fall? 

5. What is. rotation of crops? Why 
should you rotate crops? 

6. Name two insects injurious to gar- 



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dens and two that are injurious to field 
crops. 

7. Why should flies be exterminated? 
Tell at least three ways we can utilize to 
help at least to exterminate them. 

8. Explain how to build a fly trap; how 
to make a seed tester. 

9. Why should you not plant pumpkins 
and watermelons or cantaloupes side by 
side? Why not plant white and yellow 
corn side by side? 

10. What functions have leaves? Name 
four things needed for the growth of 
plants. 

11. How is pollen carried? Name 
some forage and fodder plants. 

12. Name two fiber crops, three root 
crops, three vegetable crops. 



Lesson IX 

AGRICULTURE 

4-12-18 

1. Between the soil particles in all soils 
are small air spaces called pores. Which 
will retain moisture better for the use of 
crops, a soil with large pores or a soil 
with small pores? In which kind of soil 
will moisture rise more readily? 

2. Give as many ways as you can to 
improve soil. Why do farmers cultivate 
their corn soon after a rain? 

3. The most useful plant foods are ni- 
trates, phosphoric acid, carbon dioxide and 
water. Which kinds come from the soil and 
enter the plant thru the root? Which 
come from the air and enter the plant 
thru the leaves? 

4. Tell briefly how you would test seed 
corn. Why is it important to test seed 
corn? 

5. Tell how to make a graft. Name 
one plant that is propagated by cuttings. 

6. In transplating a plant, why do we 
water it and compress the soil firmly about 
the roots? 

7. Why is it important that pollination 
take place? What insects aid in pollina- 
tion? 

8. Name eight insects telling which are 
harmful and which are beneficial? 

9. Write the names of the following 
breeds of cattle on your paper and tell 
which are good for beef and which are 
good for milk and butter: Jersey, Short- 
horn, Guernsey, Polled Durham. Ayrshire, 
Holstein, Friesian and Hereford. 

10. Mention some ways in which Junior 
Red Cross boys and girls may help win the 
war. 



Lesson X 

AGRICULTURE 
5-9-18 

1. (a) Of what special importance is 
agriculture just now? Why? (b) Mention 
three or more crops that farmers are espe- 
cially urged to raise. 

2. (a) When should seed corn be se- 
lected? (b) What points should you give 
attention to in the selection? 

3. About what time should potatoes be 
planted? When would you sow spring 
wheat? Fall wheat? Oats? When would 
you plant corn? 

4. (a) What is the present market price 
of three things a farmer has to sell? (b) 
Of three articles of food he must buy? 

5. In what ways are birds useful to 
farmers? Name five useful birds. Name 
two harmful. How are they harmful? 

6. Tell how you would get rid of weeds. 

7. As to industry, to what group of 
states does Nebraska belong? What is the 
greatest crop raised in Nebraska? 

8. Write a paragraph on "Why Every 
Family Should Raise a Garden." 

9. Name two breeds of each: cattle, 
horses, sheep, hogs, chickens. 

10. What is meant by Food Adminis- 
trator? Coal Administrator? Who is the 
Food Administrator for the United States? 
Coal Administrator? 

Lesson XI 

AGRICULTURE 
4-11-19 

1. Give two ways to improve a worn- 
out soil. 

2. Name three important crops raised 
in Nebraska and tell when each should be 
planted. Also tell how to prepare the soil 
for planting each of them. 

3. When should seed corn be selected? 
Why should seed corn be tested before 
planting? 

4. Name three birds that are beneficial 
to the farmer and two that are harmful. 
Are toads harmful or beneficial? How? 

5. Of what use to the plant are root 
hairs? How does sunshine help a plant to 
grow? 

6. Of what use to the plant is the 
flower? 

7. Name three important breeds of beef 
cattle. Name three important breeds of 
dairy cattle. 

8. How would you go about it to get rid 
of weeds on a farm? 

9. Of the following insects tell which 
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worm moth, tick, cotton boll weevil, spider, 
gypsy moth, ichneumon fly, mosquito, lady 
beetle, dragon fly. 

10. Write a paragraph on how to beau- 
tify the grounds surrounding a farm 
house. 



1. Beautifying the farm home. 

2. The ideal farm house. 

3. The value of club work. 

4. The value of farm accounting. 

5. The value of testing seeds before 
planting. 



Lesson XII 

AGRICULTURE 
5-9-19 

1. What is meant by "rotation of crops"? 
By "irrigation"? What is the purpose of 
each? 

2. Name the three most important 
grains raised in Nebraska. Name three 
grasses that are suitable for the meadows. 

3. Name a breed of dairy cow that ex- 
cels in the amount of milk, and one that 
excels in the quality. 

4. Tell why and how you test seed 
corn. 

5. Tell three ways that birds, and two 
ways that insects help the farmer. 

6. What is meant by "dry farming"? 
Is it practiced in your community? Why? 

7. Name three kinds of poultry, and 
tell why each is profitable. 

8. Why are weeds harmful in the soil? 
Name three kinds common in your neigh- 
borhood. 

9. How may waste be prevented on a 
farm? Name three things that cause loss 
to growing crops. 

10. Give some of the advantages of liv- 
ing on a farm. 

Lesson XIII 

AGRICULTURE 
3-26-20 

1. What is soil? How is it formed? 

2. How may soil be improved? 

3. Name the three common weeds in 
your locality. Tell how they spread. 

4. Give a practical method of testing 
seed corn. 

5. Give two reasons for protecting birds. 
Name two ways of protecting them. 

6. Name the different kinds of farm ani- 
mals in your neighborhood. Tell the pur- 
pose for which each is kept. 

7. Name two breeds of beef cattle. 
Name two breeds of dairy cattle. 

8. Name the leading breeds of poultry 
in your community. Tell whether they 
are meat breeds or egg breeds. 

9. What is meant by "rotation" of crops? 
What is the purpose of rotation? 

10. Write a few lines on one of the fol- 
lowing: 



Lesson XIV 

AGRICULTURE 

5-7-20 

1. Briefly tell how to select seed corn. 

2. Give three reasons for cultivating the 
soil. 

3. What is the particular value to the 
soil of such plants as alfalfa and clover? 

4. How does drainage improve the soil? 

5. Briefly describe the dairy cow. 

6. How should the farmer care for the 
working horse? 

7. Briefly describe the breeds of hogs 
that are kept in your locality. 

8. How can a farmer get rid of smut 
in small grain? 

9. How can a farmer improve the va- 
rieties of plants? 

10. How has the use of gasoline im- 
proved conditions on the farm? 



Lesson XV 

AGRICULTURE 

4-8-21 

1. Where is dry farming carried on in 
Nebraska? What crops are adapted to this 
kind of farming? 

2. Name four kinds of farm machinery 
and state the use of each. 

3. In what way has the study of agri- 
culture been helpful to you in your work 
on the farm or in the home? 

4. Name five insects telling which are 
harmful and which are useful. 

5. Tell briefly how you would test seed 
corn and why it is important to do so. 

6. Why are good roads of especial im- 
portance in Nebraska? 

7. Name four fiber or hay crops, three 
root crops, three vegetable crops. 

8. What is meant by the "rotation of 
crops?" By "irrigation?" What is the 
purpose of each? 

9. What things are necessary for plants 
to have so as to provide food for their own 
growth? 

10. Name two breeds of horses, sheep, 
cattle, hogs, poultry. 



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Lesson XVI 

AGRICULTURE 
5-6-21 

1. Name three ways of propogating 
plants. Name five plants and tell how 
each is propagated. 

2. Give three reasons for cultivating 
corn. 

3. Name five birds and tell whether 
they are useful or harmful. 

4. How may the fertility of the soil be 
injured? How may the fertility of the 
soil be improved? 

5. What is meant by rotation of crops? 
Why is rotation of crops necessary? 

6. What parts of Nebraska are best 



adapted to the erowing of the following 
crops: Corn? Why? Wheat? Why? Al- 
falfa? Why? Potatoes? Why? Fruits? 
Why? 

7. Why are good roads very important? 
Whom do you think are the most benefited 
by good roads, people living in town or 
those living in the country? 

8. Name three breeds of chickens. One 
of ducks. One of turkeys, two of cattle, 
two of hogs, one of horses. 

9. Give three reasons why agriculture 
should be taught. 

10. If you were to buy a farm, what 
are some of the necessary advantages to 
be considered? 



Physiology 



Lesson I 

PHYSIOLOGY 
4-8-15 

1. Name two uses of the bones. 

2. What is the danger of the public 
drinking cup? How does water in wells 
sometimes become impure? 

3. Why is it important to keep food 
away from flies? Why should the mer- 
chant keep his store clean and as free as 
possible from flies? 

4. Tell about two of the following: (a) 
aorta, (b) retina; (c) bacteria; (d) cere- 
brum. 

5. What is the effect of tobacco upon 
the nervous system? 

6. Tell about and name each of the 
layers of skin. 

7. Why do we cook most of our food? 

8. Describe the process of digestion. 

9. What is color blindness? Near sight- 
edness? 

10. What is necessary in the care of 
the ears? 

Lesson II 

PHYSIOLOGY 
5-6-15 

1. Give two ways of ventilating your 
school room. 

2. What is the nervous system? How 
does a continued use of alcohol affect the 
nerves? 

3. What is the function of the lungs? 

4. What is meant by (a) epidemic? 
(b) fumigation? 



5. Tell about two of the following: (a) 
pericardium, (b) esophagus, (c) dia- 
phragm, (d) eustachian tube. 

6. Name the organs of respiration. 

7. Are colds serious? How wooild you 
treat a cold? What diseases may result 
from colds? 

8. Describe the care of the eyes when 
reading. 

9. Why should not a child sit at a desk 
that is too high? On a high seat? 

10. How would you treat a burn? Frost- 
bite? Fainting? Sunstroke? Drowning? 



Lesson III 

PHYSIOLOGY 
3-9-16 

1. Why should food be well chewed? 

2. Name three contagious diseases. 

3. What is meant by quarantine? Fumi- 
gation? 

4. Are colds contagious? Give reasons 
for your answer. 

5. Are colds serious? Name two di- 
seases that may develop from colds. 

6. How should a cold be treated? 

7. Write ten lines on dangers from 
house flies and how to get rid of them. 

8. Why should we drink plenty of 
water? 

9. How would you treat a sprain? A 
burn? A frost bite? A pin scratch? A 
cut? 

10. Describe a good cold weather exer- 
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Lesson IV 

PHYSIOLOGY 
4-13-16 

1. How many bones in the human 
body? Describe the structure of a bone. 

2. What do we mean by anatomy? 

3. What is a sprain? A dislocation? 
A fracture? 

4. Describe the effects of alcohol upon 
the heart. 

5. Give the affects of tobacco- upon a 
growing boy. 

6. How can you determine whether 
bleeding is from an artery or vein? 

7. If from a vein, how would you 
bandage? If from an artery? 

8. What would you do in case of faint- 
ing? Drowning? Sunstroke? 

9. Write ten lines on ventilating a 
schoolhouse. 

10. What kind of exercise is best? 

Lesson V 

PHYSIOLOGY 

5-5-16 

1. Describe the structure and work of 
the skin. 

2. Where are the kidneys? What is 
their work? 

3. How does alcohol affect the blood? 

4. Name the special senses and their 
organs. 

5. What is the use of the blood? 

6. Name the organs of digestion. 

7. What is food? Why do we need a 
mixed diet? 

8. Name two kinds of muscles. 

9. Write five lines on the use of tea 
and coffee. 

10. Give three reasons why boys should 
not use tobacco. 



Lesson VI 

PHYSIOLOGY 
3-22-17 

1. Name three things to be done in 
properly caring for the teeth. 

2. How may school children help in 
keeping school houses and grounds in a 
sanitary condition? 

3. What is meant by the nervous sys- 
tem? What habits may injuriously affect 
the nervous system? 

4. Give two uses of the blood. 

5. Name two organs that remove bodily 
waste. What can we do to assist these 
organs in their work? 



6. Name the organs of digestion and 
tell how to keep them in a healthy con- 
dition. 

7. What are two of the following: ' (a) 
salivary glands, (b) enamel, (c) patella, 
(d) eustachian tube? 

8. How should a burn be treated? 

9. When and how often should a per- 
son bathe? 

10. What is meant by (a) quarantine, 
(b) fumigation? 

Lesson VII 

PHYSIOLOGY 

4-19-17 

1. What is a narcotic? Name four. 

2. Is alcohol a food? If so, why? If 
not, why? 

3. How does the use of tobacco affect 
scholarship? 

4. What is the testimony of the athletic 
word against drink? What makes a drunk- 
ard's nose red? His eyes bloodshot? 

5. What are the cilia and of what use 
are they? 

6. Name four juices of the body. Tell 
what food they affect and state their ac- 
tion upon this food. 

7. Give examples of ball and socket 
joint, hinge joint, sliding joint. What is 
the purpose of joints? 

8. Define ligament, vertebrae, sinew, 
periosteum, ganglion, tonsils, capillary, 
diaphragm, larynx, trachea? Explain 
fully. 

9. Show what happens to- a breath of 
air, from the time it enters the mouth 
until it comes out of the body. What or- 
gans does it pass through? What does 
it do in the body and what changes come 
to it? 

10. What are adenoids? How do they 
affect a person who has them? What 
should this person do to get relief? 



Lesson VIII 

PHYSIOLOGY 

5-10-17 
(Answer ten) 

1. What is a quarantine? Where and 
why is it established? 

2. What diseases should be quaran- 
tined ? 

3. What do you understand by "The 
Pure Food Law"? Name some foods which 
might become impure when exposed to 
dust and air. 

4. Name four of the chief organs of 
circulation. Of what use are they to you? 



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5. Of what does the nervous system 
consist? How is it like a telephone or 
telegraph system? 

6. What is meant by contagious dis- 
ease? Name three contagious diseases. 
What is the duty of the Board of Healtn 
in time of contagious diseases? 

7. What objection should you have to 
using the same drinking cup as the other 
members of the school use? How can 
this be avoided? 

8. Name the special senses. How 
should the eye and ear be protected? (Ex- 
plain fully.) 

9. What do you think is the purpose 
of physical training? 

10. Name some effects of overeating; 
of too rapid eating; of not chewing the 
food. 

11. What are adenoids? How should 
we breathe naturally? How do many 
people breathe, unnaturally? Why? 



wheat and meat? Why should we use 
such substitutes freely at this time? 

3. Name the organs of the digestive ap- 
paratus. 

4. Why is it not best to tell exciting or 
distressing news at meal-time? 

5. What are some of the causes of the 
decay of the teeth? 

6. What care should be given to the 
eyes while in school? Name three parts 
of the eye. 

7. How may children help to keep the 
schoolhouse and the grounds in a sani- 
tary condition? What are some of the 
things that should be looked after? 

8. What poison is found in tobacco? 
Name some organs of the body that it 
weakens. 

9. Describe the use of each of the five 
senses. 

10. How is the heat of the body kept 
up? How is it regulated? 



Lesson IX 

PHYSIOLOGY 
4-11-18 

1. (a) What can you say of the food 
value of milk? (b) Of alcohol? 

2. What kind of food is necessary in 
a cold climate? In a warm climate? 

3. What are the effects of good exer- 
cise? 

4. How would you ventilate a school 
room? 

5. Name the chief organs of circula- 
tion, and describe the structure and use 
of each. 

6. How may contagious diseases be 
spread in the school room? 

7. Tell how to care for the teeth, and 
give three things that are injurious to the 
teeth. 

8. What are the two general classes of 
muscles? Define and give an example of 
each. 

9. How many hours of sleep are neces- 
sary each day for a young person from 13 
to 15 years of age? 

10. Name five habits that would be 
conducive to health. Which of the five 
do you consider most important? 



Lesson X 

PHYSIOLOGY 
5-9-18 

1. Name three classes of foods. What 
is each class used for in the body? 

2. What are the chief substitutes for 



Lesson XI 

PHYSIOLOGY 
4-10-19 

1. How much sleep is necessary for 
boys and girls 13 to 15 years of age? What 
care should be used in regard to sleeping 
rooms? What care in regard to bedding? 
Why should every one use different cloth- 
ing for sleeping than for wearing during 
the day? 

2. How should the eyes be protected 
while one is reading? What care must 
be taken in their use after illness? How 
can one determine when glasses are 
needed? What danger to the eyes is the 
use of a public towel? 

3. What is the purpose of quarantine? 
Of what value is it? Why is it necessary? 
Should we obey quarantine laws carefully 
and cheerfully? Why or why not? 

4. Describe a good sitting posture? Tell 
how to stand correctly. What effect does 
a good position have on (a) appearance? 
(b) growth? (c) health? 

5. How may flies prove dangerous to 
health? What can boys and girls do to 
help get rid of flies at home? At school? 

6. Tell how teeth help to keep the body 
in good condition. How often should they 
be cleaned? What may cause the teeth to 
decay? How can decay be prevented? 

7. Name three forms and three uses of 
bones. Locate the following: patella, 
femur, humerus, frontal, tibia. 

8. If a playmate should fall and break 
his leg, what should be done? In case 
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the arm, causing blood to spurt from the 
wound, how would you proceed? 

9. What do the lungs do for the body? 
Give three things that we should do in 
order that they may perform their work 
in the best way. 

10. Distinguish between voluntary and 
involutary muscles. Give an example of 
each. 

Lesson XII 

PHYSIOLOGY 

5-8-19 

1. Nearly all soldiers who have re- 
turned from service in the army have 
gained in weight. What is the reason? 

2. What does it mean to disinfect a 
room? Is it necessary to disinfect school- 
rooms? How may this be done? 

3. What is the danger in the use of a 
common drinking cup? What is the impor- 
tance of frequent bathing in combatting 
disease? 

4. Describe the changes that occur in 
bones with advancing age. How does 
this effect the mending of a broken bone? 
Why is a severe strain worse than a 
broken bone? 

5. What is a tendon? Of what use is 
it? Why does an injured tendon heal 
more slowly than an injured J bone or 
muscle? 

6. What is a gland? Name and locate 
the glands that secrete the various di- 
gestive fluids? 

7. Define diaphragm, tonsils, adenoids, 
corpuscles, larynx. 

8. Why do we have more colds in win- 
ter than in summer? Is there any danger 
in having a. cold? How may one avoid 
colds? 

9. Give two reasons why the food 
should be well chewed before it is swal- 
lowed. What generally results from a 
habit of swallowing food before it is prop- 
erly chewed? 

10. What changes does the air undergo 
in the lungs? Why is it necessary to 
breathe pure air? 

Lesson XIII 

PHYSIOLOGY 
3-25-20 

1. What is the importance of daily exer- 
cise? 

2. What are the uses of the skin? How 
may it be kept in good condition? 

3. Why should individual towels and 
drinking cups be used in school? 

4. Are the following beneficial or harm- 
ful and in what way? 



Drinking coffee, wearing high heeled 
shoes, eating slowly, sleeping with win- 
dow open, brushing the teeth, playing 
out of doors. 

5. What is the blood? How does it be- 
come impure? How is it made pure? 

6. How can the medical inspection of 
school pupils be made beneficial? 

7. What are contagious diseases? Name 
three. What should be done with a per- 
son who has a contagious disease? 

8. The other morning I had for my 
breakfast the following: a baked apple, 
corn flakes and cream, a piece of buttered 
toast, a poached egg and a glass of milk. 
Why o.r why not was it a good breakfast? 

9. Name the organs of the body that 
aid in digestion. How? 

10. Tell what and where each of the 
following is: biceps, aorta, iris, cerebrum, 
corpuscles. 



Lesson XIV 

PHYSIOLOGY 

5-6-20 

1. Of what use to the body are fruits, 
water, salt, butter, vegetables? 

2. Should dust be removed from school 
room desks by means of a damp cloth or 
a feather duster? Explain* 

3. Where should a well be located with 
reference to the buildings on the farm? 

4. Why is open air exercise better than 
indoor exercise? 

5. Name and briefly describe the or- 
gans of circulation. 

6. Name five good health habits. 

7. Plan a school lunch, naming the 
articles of food and give reasons for their 
selection. 

8. Write a few lines about '"Fresh Air." 

9. Name the parts of the tooth, tell of 
what it is composed, and describe a good 
method of caring for teeth. 

10. Define physiology, hygiene. 



Lesson XV 

PHYSIOLOGY 



1. Name the 

system, stating 
each. 

2. Name the 
system, stating 
each. 

3. Name the 
system, stating 
each. 



4-7-21 
organs of the digestive 
the work performed by 

organs of the respiratory 
the work performed by 

organs of the circulatory 
the work performed by 



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4. Why is it necessary that food be well 
chewed? 

5. Write a brief paragraph on the care 
of the teeth. 

6. Why is a good supply of fresh air 
necessary? 

7. Write a brief paragraph on the venti- 
lation of a sleeping room. 

8. What is meant by the wo-rd "conta- 
gious" when used in reference to a dis- 
ease? Give some ways of preventing the 
spread of contagious diseases. 

9. How is circulation affected by pos- 
ture and carriage? 

10. How much sleep should an eighth 
grade pupil have? Why? 

Lesson XVI 

PHYSIOLOGY 
5-5-21 

1. Why should our food be well chewed? 
What are the bad effects of rapid eating? 

2. Name the organs of circulation. 
Give a brief description of the heart. 



3. Name the special senses. Give rules 
for the care of the eyes. 

4. Name three contagious diseases. 
Mention two ways by which these diseases 
may be controlled. 

5. What are the general effects of the 
use of alcohol upon the body? Why is the 
use of tobacco especially harmful to a 
growing boy? 

6. Give a full explanation of how each 
of the following accidents should be 
treated: drowning, clothing on fire. 

7. Distinguish between voluntary and 
involuntary muscles. Give an example of 
each. 

8. What is meant by epidemic? Fumi- 
gation? 

9. Tell what and where each of the 
following is: pericardium, esophagus, cere- 
brum, eustachian tube, aorta. 

10. What is the danger in the use of 
the common drinking cup? Common 
towel? 



Orthography 



Lesson I 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

4-8-15 

1. Write and define words containing 
the following prefixes: pre, re, semi, anti, 
fore. 

2. Indicate the pronunciation of the 
following by the use of diacritical marks: 
relief, oak, chestnut, cartoon, wagons. 

3. Use the following words in sentences: 
presence, presents, profits, prophets, scent, 
cent, pare, pear, gilt, guilt. 

4. When and for what purpose should 
the dictionary be used? 

5-10. Examiner pronounce these words: 



Lesson II 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

5-6-15 

1. Mark diacritically the following 
words: honesty, obey, queer, acre, janitor. 

2. Write and define words containing 
the following prefixes: peri, anti, pro, non, 
in. 

3. Give two rules for spelling and an 
appropriate word for each rule given. 

4. Define any two: monosyllable, vowel, 
diphthong, macron, suffix. 

5. Why are words divided into syllables? 



spelling 


official 






acreage 


description 


6-10. Spell from dictation: 


agriculture 


elevator 


label 


lettuce 


anticipate 


embarrass 


palate 


chaos 


bronchitis 


incredible 


nerve 


design 


injurious 


jewelry 


woolly 


diploma 


offence 


lymph 


salary 


singular 


campaign 


obstacle 


census 


confess 


camera 


fascinate 


remodel 


medicine 


cartridge 


forfeiture 


fragile 


balsam 


convenience 


habitual 


alas 


Russian 


decorate 


hypnotize 


camphor 


umbrella 


imperative 


industrious 


museum 


dandelion 


invincible 


mercenary 


celery 


excel 


lieutenant 


occasional 


vacate 





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Lesson III 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

3-9-16 

1. Mark diacritically: omelet, righteous- 
ly, pamphlets, veteran, pioneer. 

2. Write and define words having the 
following prefixes: syn, tile, peri, mono, 
non. 

3. Write and define words having the 
following suffixes: ate, ary, an, able, ness. 

4. Define any two: monosyllable, poly- 
syllable, macron, caret, synonym. 

5. Abbreviate: Nebraska, secretary, 
merchandise, bushel. 

6-10. Spell from dictation: 

accord neighborhood 

boistrous observance 

capable parcel 

delegate qualify 

excuse receipt 

family secede 

government traitor 

humanity undertaking 

immediate venerable 

Jerusalem witness 

kindred youthful 

language zenith 

menace 



Lesson V 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

5-5-16 

1. Write ten lines on the value and use 
of the dictionary. 

2. Define and illustrate five rules in 
spelling. 

3. Define orthography, consonant, diph- 
thong. 

4. Underscore suffix, and give meaning 
of words: biped, subway, transport, semi- 
annual, antecedent. 

5. Divide into syllables and mark ac- 
cent: aggregate, peaceably, permanent, 
cancellation, content. 

6-10. Spell from dictation: 

abode nauseous 

beginning obedient 

calm pallid 

deceit question 

esteem rebel 

forcible scholarship 

generous tiresome 

homage uncertain 

ignorant vague 

judicial wanton 

Kentucky yield 

laborer zealous 
masculine 



Lesson IV 

ORTHOGRAPHY 
4-13-16 

1. Use these words correctly in sen- 
tences: right, write, rite; pale, pail; tear, 
tare. 

2. Use in sentences in such a way that 
the differences in meaning will be clearly 
shown, the following pairs of words: pro- 
tection and shelter; study and consider; 
site and residence; partnership and com- 
pany; proceed and advance. 

3. Define synonyms and give example. 

4. Mark diacritically: argue, character- 
istic, dishonor, ghost, neighborhood. 

5. Give two rules for use of capitals. 
6-10. Spell from dictation: 

advise neutral 

bountiful paragraph 

changeable option 

debt quotation 

expel receive 

farming significant 

grateful triumph 

. humble unique 

incentive vengeance 

John worship 

knowledge yearly 

luxury zero 
minister 



Lesson VI 

ORTHOGRAPHY 
3-23-17 

1. Give meanings of the following 
words and prefixes and use each correctly 
in a word: per, inter, circum, bene, anti, 
tri, semi, super, non, re. 

2. Indicate by diacritical markings, the 
pronunciation of the following words: in- 
sect, liable, all, they, moon, half, such, cow, 
live, control. 

3. Write two rules for forming the 
plural from singular forms of words. 

4. Use correctly in sentences the fol- 
lowing words: aisles, isles, clime, climb, 
flue, flew, pare, pair, pear. 

5-10. Spell correctly when pronounced: 

autumn business 

bicycle government 

recognize justice 

believe mutually 

apology pursuit 

January sincere 

February circle 

island education 

receive orchestra 

banana scientific 

vegetable canal 

separate choir 
humor 



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Lesson VII 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

4-19-17 

1. Define: orthography, elementary- 
sound, vocal, sub-vocal, aspirate. 

2. When should you double the con- 
sonant on taking a suffix beginning with 
a vowel? - 

3. Write and define words containing 
the following prefixes: syn, in, peri, mono, 
con. 

4. Illustrate in words, all sounds repre- 
sented by the following a,e, i, c, g,oi, ch, 
th, ou, oy. 

5. Analyze the following words: recog- 
nize, community, indelible, officiate, maint- 
enance. 

6. Use synonyms of the following: rich, 
becoming, gayly, somber, efficient. 

7. Define derivative, prefix, suffix. 

8. Give eight rules for the use of cap- 
itals and illustrate. 

9-10. Conductor will detach and have all 
write these words at the same time. Then 
collect immediately. 



fatigue 

association 

nervous 

philanthropist 

insanity 

tuberculosis 

entente 

benefactor 

paralyze 

separate 



foreigners 

revenue 

religion 

geyser 

meridian 

Christianity 

Caucasian 

Guiana 

resemblance 

temp?rature 



Lesson VI 7 I 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

5-10-17 

Conductor will pronounce words. Pupils 
will write words and papers will be col- 
lected at once: 



which 

their 

there 

separate 

don't 

meant 

business 

many 

friend 

some 

been 

used 

always 

where 

women 

done 

hear 

here 



guess 

says 

having 

just 

doctor 

whether 

believe 

knew 

laid 

tear 

choose 

grammar 

minute 

any 

much 

beginning 

blue 

though 



write 

writing 

heard 

does 

once 

would 

since 

can't 

sure 

loose 

lose 

Wednesday 

country 

February 

know 

could 

seems 

Tuesday 

answer 

two 

too 

ready 

forty 

hour 

trouble 

among 

busy 

built 

color 

making 

dear 

wear 



coming 

early 

instead 

easy 

through 

every 

tired 

they 

hair 

break 

buy 

again 

very 

none 

weak 

often 

whole 

won't 

piece 

raise 

ache 

read 

said 

hoarse 

shoes 

tonight 

wrote 

enough 

truly 

sugar 

straight 

cough 



Lesson IX 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

4-11-18 

1. Write the word instead of the abbre- 
viation of the following: Sec, Supt., 
Atty., P.M., Co. 

2. Define: word, sylable, accent, primi- 
tive word, derivative word. 

3. Mark diacritically the following 
words: creek, suggest, majestic, genuine, 
frightful. 

4. Name, give example, and give the 
meaning of two prefixes and two suffixes. 

5. Give rules for retaining and drop- 
ping final "y" when a suffix is added. 

6-10. Spell from dictation: 



ambulance 

knife 

potatoes 

index 

thrift 

conservation 

American 

separate 

government 

service 



information 

patriotic 

savings 

flagstaff 

truly 

resource 

accident 

ninety 

quorum 

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Lesson X 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

5-10-18 

1. Give two rules for spelling and illus- 
trate each rule by appropriate words. 

2. Define: elementary sound, vocal, sub- 
vocal, aspirate, word analysis. 

3. Illustrate, by using in words, five 
sounds of the letter "a". 

4. Mark diacritically the following 
words: rigid, evolution, army, government, 
remainder. 

5. Divide into syllables and mark the 
accent: caterpillar, museum, hospital, 
tomato, hemisphere. 

6-10. Spell from dictation: 



indication 

training 

public 

private 

citizen 



narcotic 
straight 
community 
conservation 



manicure 

preamble 

immediate 

monarch 

recruit 

saliva 

volcano 

Democracy 

superintendent 

college 

vinegar 

aeroplane 

ideal 



grammar 

aviator 

construct 

auxiliary 

misspell 

separate 

organization 

memorize 

oration 

goldenrod 

score 

promote 



Lesson XI 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

4-10-19 

1. Give three rules in spelling and illus- 
trate each rule by appropriate words. 

2. Use the following words in sen- 
tences: right, there, stake, fore, pale. 

3. Explain how to use the dictionary. 

(a) What are the diacritical markings? 

(b) Why are words divided into syl- 
lables? 

(c) What is meant by primary accent? 

(d) What is a derivative word? 

4. Write the words instead of the fol- 
lowing abbreviations: Dr., Feb., Gen., 
cwt., P. M., C. O. D., Rev., U. S. N., rec'd, 
Lieut. 

5. (a) Write two words containing pre- 
fixes and tell the meaning of each prefix 
used. (b) Write two words containing 
suffixes and tell the meaning of each suffix 
used. 

6-10. Detach and pronounce to class: 
legislature resident 

representative # American 
armistice operation 

language financial 

suffrage government 

determined recommend 

soldier detriment 

sacred statement 



Lesson XII 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

5-8-19 

1. Define the following and give exam- 
ples: synonyms, antonyms, paronyms, 
homonyms. 

2. Write the abbreviation of the follow- 
ing words: postscript, take notice, mer- 
chandise, gentleman, professor, present 
month, mister, for example, foot, gallon. 

3. Write words containing the following 
prefixes and give meaning of each prefix: 
mis, un, non, sub, anti. 

4. Write words containing the following 
suffixes and give meaning of each suffix: 
less, en, hood, ate, able. 

5. Distinguish between a primitive and 
a derivative word. Give five derivative 
words and the root from which each is de- 
rived. 

6-10. Spell the following words: 



believe 

siege 

referee 

necessary 

beginning 

armistice 

specimen 

cerebellum 

court-martial 

granary 

criticise 

mileage 

oriole 

dairy 

graduation 

Clemmons 

principal 

engage 

agreeably 

usury 

tying 

sacred 

occurrence 

immediate 



feminine 

McKelvie 

Woodrow 

burglar 

curiosity 

apparel 

perilous 

bouquet 

incubator 

cannibal 

calcimine 

cartilage 

cancer 

cabinet 

irksome 

innocent 

relieve 

permanence 

bronchitis 

liable 

cocoanut 

enrollment 

possession 

constable 



Lesson XIII 

ORTHOGRAPHY 
3-25-20 

1. Of what use is the dictionary? 

2. Give two rules for forming the 
plurals of nouns ending in "y." 

3. Write words illustrating the long 
and short sounds of each word. Mark the 
vowel. 



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4. Use correctly in sentences the follow- 
ing words: to, too, two; pear, pare, pair; 
sight, site, new, knew. 

5. Tell how you prepare your spelling 
lesson. 

6-10. The examiner will detach and pro- 
nounce the following list of words, giving 
the meaning of the word when necessary. 



which 


again 


doctor 


daily 


across 


sincerely 


friend 


dollar 


American 


color 


premium 


triangle 


does 


separate 


wear 


minute 


circle 


always 


bushel 


wood 


says 


service 


remember 


seems 


geography 


hour 


grammar 


league 


adverb 


history 


write 


their 


feeble 


believe 


principal 


piece 


forty 


much 


treaty 


soldier 


hygiene 


armistice 


language 


citizen 


until 


election 


thrift 


busy 


woman 


census 



Lesson XIV 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

5-6-20 

1. Divide into syllables and mark ac- 
cent: calendar, library, automobile, geogra- 
phy, advertise. 

2. Explain how to use the dictionary. 

3. Define orthography, accent, prefix, 
hyphen, monosyllable. 

4. Which is the easier for you: oral 
spelling or written spelling? Why? 

5. What are synonyms? Antonyms? 
Homonyms? Illustrate each. 

6-10. Examiner will detach and pro- 
nounce the list of words, giving the mean- 
ings when necessary: 

business typhoid 

many damage 

women missionary 

principle southern 

writing reign 

February acid 

Wednesday badge 

making decimal 

coming plural 



buy 


season 


arithmetic 


isle 


course 


oceanic 


whole 


sewing 


often 


president 


piece 


exhibit 


raise 


beneath 


enough 


diary 


sugar 


receive 


tonight 


mileage 


truly 


debit 


tarry 


absence 


section 


pistil 


scene 


capitol 


pursue 


unit 


itself 


independence 



Lesson XV 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

4-8-21 

1. Give two rules for spelling and 
write words to illustrate after each rule 
you have written. 

2. What is a prefix? A suffix? Give 
an example of each and give meaning of 
the whole word in which each is used. 

3. Define: synonyms, antonyms, homo- 
nyms. Give examples after each definition. 

4. Write the words for the following 
abbreviations: acct., B.C., ft., Dr., Jan. 

5. Mark diacritically: swallow, pneu- 
monia, visible, irrigate, janitor. 

6-10. Examiner will detach and. pro- 
nounce the list of words, giving the mean- 
ing when necessary: 



afraid 

which 

would 

night 

thank 

sincerely 

every 

yesterday 

receive 

Sunday 

oblige 

because 

though 

friend 

business 

several 

remember 

women 

February 

company 

together 

obtain 

unfortunate 

character 

separate 



evidence 

arrive 

distribute 

pleasure 

necessary 

salary 

direction 

request 

mention 

absence 

general 

government 

beautiful 

express 

wonderful 

factory 

attention 

neighbor 

consider 

foreign 

important 

celebration 

famous 

population 

treasure 



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Lesson XVI 

ORTHOGRAPHY 

5-6-21 

Examiner will detach Part II before giving out 
this list of questions. 

PART I 

1. Name the vowels and give two mark- 
ings of each. 

2. Use these words correctly in sen- 
tences: rain, reign; right, write; pare, 
pear; stake, steak. 

3. Give three rules for capitals. 

4. Write the word instead of the ab- 
breviation for the following: Gen., P. M., 
Co., Supt., Dr. 

5. Give the feminine for the following 



words: lion, man, drake, brother, nephew, 
husband, host, king, hero, son. 



PART II 



6-10. Examiner will 
nounce very plainly the 
doctor 
minute 
ache 
business 
grammar 
believe 
guess 
beginning 
writing 
instead 
Wednesday 
coming 
whether 



detach and pro- 
following words: 

autumn 

grammar 

separate 

forty 

prairie 

calendar 

pigeon 

committee 

furniture 

liberty 

France 

agriculture 



Penmanship 



Lesson I 

PENMANSHIP 
4-8-15 

1. Name two requisites of a good pen- 
man. 

2. Name two things that have helped 
you to improve your penmanship. 

3. Describe the proper manner of hold- 
ing the pen, the proper position of the 
body while writing, and the proper posi- 
tion of the paper. 

4. Write the letters of the alphabet, 
grouping them according to the number of 
spaces above or below the base line. 

5. Copy the following stanza: 
"Consider 

The birds that have no barn nor har- 
vest-weeks ; 

God gives them food — 
Much more our Father seeks 

To do us good." 

Lesson II 

PENMANSHIP 
5-6-15 

1. Write all the small letters in alpha- 
betical order. 

2. Write all the capital letters in alpha- 
betical order. 

3. Write the figures from one to ten. 

4. Name the requisites of a good pen- 
man. 

5. Write a neat, carefully worded letter 
to the Secretary of Agriculture at Wash- 
ington asking him to send you a copy of 
Farmers Bulletin No. 513, Fifty Common 
Birds. 



Lesson III 

PENMANSHIP 

3-9-16 

1. What is good writing? How ac- 
quired? 

2. Give three reasons for good writing. 

3. Why are good materials important? 
Write one line each of three exercises for 
muscular penmanship. 

4. Describe the correct position in writ- 
ing of (a) the body, (b) arm, (c) hand, 
(d) pen, (e) paper. 

5. Write these fractions: 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 
7/8, 9/10. 

Lesson IV 

PENMANSHIP 
4-13-16 

1. Distinguish between arm and finger 
movement. Which is the better? Why? 

2. What has rate of speed to do with 
good writing? 

3. Write the following commercial ab- 
breviations and tell what each means: c, $, 
%, @, &c, c/o, a/c. 

4. How can you improve your writing? 

5. Name the points to be observed in 
writing a letter. 

Lesson V 

PENMANSHIP 

5-5-16 

1. How may muscular movement in 
writing be acquired? 

2. Write all the capital letters in alpha- 
betical order. 



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3. Write all the small letters in alpha- 
betical order. 

4. Copy this problem: No. 1. 2X8-H- 
4—3 + 5X6 + 7—9=? 

5. Copy neatly: 

The year's at the spring 
And day's at the morn, 
Morning's at seven. 
The hillside's dew pearled; 
The lark's on the wing; 
The snail's on the thorn; 
God's in His heaven; 
All's right with the world. 

—Browning 



Lesson VI 

PENMANSHIP 
3-22-17 

1. Make a list of the one space letters. 

2. What are movement exercises and 
of what use are they? 

3. Give directions for holding the pen 
and for placing the practice paper or the 
copy book. 

4. Name three essentials of a good pen- 
man. 

5. Write a short letter of friendship as 
a specimen of your hand writing. 



Lesson VII 

PENMANSHIP 
4-19-17 

1. Write the letters of three spaces, 
five spaces, two spaces, one space in height. 

2. Analyze: a, c, i, b, 1, m, t, w, h, p. 

3. Write a letter ordering three articles 
from a dry goods merchant. Make out 
the bill he should enclose with the order. 
Note: — This letter should state whether 

the goods are to come by express, par- 
cel post, etc. 

4. Write a clieck to pay for these goods. 

5. You might wish to pay for this order 
of goods with a bank draft. Write the 
draft which your banker would probably 
make in this case. 

6-10. The last five questions will be 
graded on your manuscript. Conductors 
or readers of papers will be guided by 
the following rules: 

1. General neatness. 

2. Slant of letters. 

3. Height of letters. 

4. How nearly your writing on all 
manuscripts reaches the standard 
of the county (By standard is 
meant Palmer or other system em- 
ployed or advocated by county su- 
perintendent.) 



Lesson VIII 

PENMANSHIP 
5-10-17 

1. What system of penmanship is taught 
in your county? What are some of its good 
points? 

2. How would you show the pupil how 
to overcome the natural tendency to mus- 
cular rigidity? 

3. (a) What is the object of counting 
in penmanship drills? (b) Explain how 
you would start first grade children in 
writing. 

4. What use do you make of the black- 
board; (a) by the teacher; (b) by the 
pupil? 

5-10. Write a stanza from some poem. 
Lesson IX 

PENMANSHIP 
4-11-18 

1. What have you and your teachers 
done during the past two years in the 
way of making you a good "muscular move- 
ment" writer? 

2. What constitutes good writing? 

3. Describe definitely how the pen 
should be held in writing. 

4. Write the figures from 1 to 10. 

5. Write all of the capital letters in 
alphabetical order. 

6. Write two lines of the one-space let- 
ters. 

7. What two things should be in the 
heading of a letter? Write heading cor- 
rectly. 

8 Draw a space for an envelope and 
address it correctly. 

9. Write a receipt from James Brown 
to William Smtih for a month's rent for 
a house. 

10. Write the first stanza of 'America." 

Lesson X 

PENMANSHIP 
5-9-18 

1. What system of penmanship is taught 
in your county? Name at least three of 
its good points. 

2. Write a check in favor of your 
teacher for nine dollars in full payment 
for supplies she has furnished during the 
school year. 

3. Write one line each of three differ- 
ent muscular movement drills. 

4. Of what benefit are movement exer- 
cises? 

5. Write a letter ordering a bill of 
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6. Write the capital letters; the small 
letters; the nine digits as you would pre- 
sent each for a copy. 

7. What is the difference between mus- 
cular and finger movement? 

8. Write your favorite "Memory Gem" 
as a specimen of your best writing. 

9. (a) How many lessons in penman- 
ship have you been having each week? 
(b) How much time is devoted to the pen- 
manship lesson each day? (c) Do you 
think this a sufficient amount to make 
you a good penman? 

10. Give the correct position of the 
body, paper and pen in order to secure 
the best results when writing. 

Lesson XI 

PENMANSHIP 

4-10-19 

1. What system of penmanship have 
you been taught during the past year or 
two? Name some of its good points. 

2. Write one line each of three different 
muscular movement exercises. 

3. Write the figures from 1 to 10. 

4. Write all the capital letters. 

5. Write the one space letters. 

6. Write the correct heading of a letter 
to John Smith at Lincoln. 

7. Draw a space for an envelope and 
address it correctly. 

8. What do you understand "good writ- 
ing" to be? 

9. Put down for addition a column of 
five numbers each of three places. Do not 
add. 

10. Write the first stanza of "America" 
as a specimen of your best penmanship. 

Lesson XII 

PENMANSHIP 
5-8-19 

1. Tell what you have been taught in 
regard to the proper position of the pen, 
the paper, and the body while writing, (b) 
Does a correct knowledge of the above 
help to make your writing better? 

2. Write one line of any good muscu- 
lar movement exercise, (b) Of what bene- 
fit is such an exercise? 

3. Write the proper form for the head- 
ing and salutation of a business letter. 

4. How much time has been devoted 
each day to penmanship in your school, 
and at what time has it been taught during 
the day? (b) Do you think this enough 
to make you a good penman? 

5. Write the small letters and the fig- 
ures as a specimen of your best writing. 



Now try to make the rest of your paper 
compare with this, your best writing. 

6. What are three of the good points 
in the system of penmanship taught in 
your county? 

7. You are a poor writer. How may 
you improve your writing? 

8. Should speed have anything to do 
with good writing? If so, why? 

9. Write the capital letters. 

10. I wish you to look over your paper 
in a careful manner. If you were to grade 
it, what grade do you think you should 
have? Be honest and careful in your 
judgment. 

Lesson XIII 

PENMANSHIP 
3-25-20 

1. Tell briefly what you have been 
taught about position, pen holding and 
movement. 

2. Write a line of direct ovals, making 
them compact. 

3. Write a line of the push and pall 
exercise. 

4. Write the figures from 1 to 10. 

5. Of what value is good penmanship? 
6-10. Write: 

"Whichever way the wind doth blow, 
Some heart is glad to have it so; 
Then blow it east or blow it w^st, 

The wind that blows, that wind is best." 

Lesson XIV 

• PENMANSHIP 
5-6-20 

1. What is good penmanship? 

2. Write a line of the oval drill. 

3. What advantages has the muscular 
movement over the finger movement? 

4. Write a line of the push and pull 
exercise. 

5. Write the figures from 1 to 10. 
6-10. Write: 

"Happy is the individual who is at 
peace with God, who looks the busy world 
in the face with that rich tone of char- 
acter that subdues evil, who carries not 
malice, envy, hate, revenge — but whose 
soul is an open book of frankness, justice 
and good-will." 

Lesson XV 

PENMANSHIP 
4-7-21 

1. What are movement exercises and of 
what value are they? 

2. Write one line of each of two move- 
ment exercises. 



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3. Why is muscular movement better 
than finger movement? 

4. Make a list of the one space letters. 

5. Write all the capital letters. 

6. Write all the figures. 

7. What constitutes good writing? 

8. What do you consider the best way 
to improve your penmanship? 

9. Write your favorite memory gem. 

10. Write a letter ordering a bill of 
goods. 



Lesson XVI 

PENMANSHIP 

5-5-21 

1. Write two lines of direct ovals. 

2. Write the alphabet in small letters. 

3. Write the alphabet in capitals. 

4. Give three advantages of muscular 
movement writing over finger writing. 

5. What is the correct position for writ- 
ing? 

6-10. Copy in your best writing: 
"Hats off! 

Along the street there comes 

A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums.. 

A flash of color beneath the sky: 

Hats off! 

The flag is passing by!" 



D 



rawing 



Lesson I 

DRAWING 

4-8-15 

1. Draw a circle; a square, a triangle; 
a rectangle; an oval. 

2. Make a drawing of a leaf of the 
"CORN" which is "KING" in Nebraska. 
Draw a "Feb. 1912" calendar, originating 
the ornamental part. 

3. Draw a cube above and to the right 
of the eye. 

4. Draw a leaf, using a triangle as its 
type shape. 

5. Draw a winter scene four inches by 
five inches, showing a tree in the fore- 
ground, distance house and trees. 

Lesson II 

DRAWING 

5-6-15 

1. Show by a drawing what is meant by 
"center of vision." 

2. Draw a border design one inch in 
width across your page. 

3. Using a cylinder for your base, draw 
as many objects as you can think of, as a 
tin cup, basket, barrel, etc. 

4. What is a free hand drawing? A 
working drawing? 

5. Name some pictures you have studied 
this year. Give the names of the painters. 

Lesson III 

DRAWING 

3-9-16 

(Answer five) 

1. Make drawing showing how to set 

the table for one person with the following 



silver and china: salad fork, dinner fork, 
dinner knife, dessert spoon, coffee spoon, 
soup spoon, dinner plate, bread and butter 
plate, glass and napkin. (Girls.) 

2. Show by drawings some good method 
of testing seed corn. (Boys.) 

3. Name the spectrum colors. 

4. Name a flower or plant in each of 
which a different one of the spectrum 
colors prevails. Sketch one of the flowers 
you have named. 

5. What is meant by "center of vision"? 

6. Make a sketch of your schoolhouse. 

Lesson IV 

DRAWING 

4-14-16 

1. Why do we study pictures? Name 
three pictures you like and tell why you 
like them. 

2. Draw an open book. A closed book. 

3. Draw a bushel basket filled with 
potatoes. 

4. Make a drawing that will indicate 
spring of the year. 

5. What is meant by free-hand draw- 
ing? 

Lesson V 

DRAWING 

5-5-16 

1. Write a "Mother Goose Rhyme" and 
illustrate it. 

2. What is a perspective drawing? 

3. Name two pictures you have studied. 
Describe them and name the artists who 
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4. Draw a poster appropriate to the 
month of May. 

5. Draw three flowers which bloom dur- 
ing the month of May. 

Lesson VI 

DRAWING 

3-21-17 

1. Draw a box showing perspective. 

2. Draw an inch border, using a leaf 
as a design. 

3. Draw a box without a lid, below and 
to the left of the eye. 

4. Make a drawing of a jar or a bottle. 

5. Define horizon line and draw a land- 
scape illustrating. 

Lesson VII 

DRAWING 
4-19-17 

1. What do you understand by per- 
spective, vanishing point, primary and 
secondary colors, center of vision? 

2. Draw a valentine and decorate as 
you like. 

3. Draw a cylinder below the level of 
the eye; a cube above the level of the eye; 
a sphere. 

4. Make a drawing containing a collec- 
tion of vegetables; a collection of fruits. 
(Each pupil may make his own selection 
of fruits and vegetables, not less than 
five of each.) 

5. Name two or more reasons why you 
should learn to draw. 

6. Make a poster to illustrate some 
special day as Christmas, Thanksgiving, 
Arbor Day, etc., etc., etc. 

7-10. Draw a cylinder and from that 
develop as many objects as you can as 
cup, glass, box, barrel, etc. 

Lesson VIII 

DRAWING 

5-10-17 

1. Draw a pester for some special day 
as Christmas, Valentine Day, Washington's 
Birthday. 

2. Draw a vase with your favorite 
flower in it. 

3. Draw an apple on the branch of a 
tree. 

4. Make a sketch of a wigwam and pine 
trees. 

5. Draw any two of the following: 
Bunch of grapes, potato, pumpkin, beet, 
carrot, cabbage, lemon, orange, onion, to- 
mato. 



Lesson IX 

DRAWING 

4-11-18 

1. Draw a circle and a triangle. 

2. Draw a cylinder. 

3. Using a cylinder for your base, draw 
a teacup and a waste paper basket. 

4. Name two pictures you have studied 
in school, giving the name of the artists. 

5. What is your favorite picture, and 
why? 

6. Draw any two of the following: a 
pumpkin, a pear, a banana, an onion, a 
lemon. 

7. Draw an American flag. 

8. Draw a bird or a spring flower. 

9. Draw a shock of wheat. 

10. Draw an Easter border across your 
page. 

Lesson X 

DRAWING 

5-10-18 

1. Draw an open box standing below 
the eye. 

2. Define (a) horizon line, (b) converg- 
ence, (c) foreshortening, (d) construction 
lines, (e) shade. 

3. Draw a border an inch wide, using 
as a design a leaf. 

4. Draw a railroad scene, showing the 
rails, telegraph poles and other objects in 
the distance. 

5. Draw a bushel basket filled witb 
apples. 

6. Name three reasons why you should 
study drawing. 

7. Mention four plants you can find for 
drawing lessons in the month of May. 

8. Name two pictures that you know 
and the artists that painted them. 

9. What is a free-hand drawing? 

10. Name the seven primary colors. 



Lesson XI 

DRAWING 

4-10-19 

1. Show by drawing some good method 
of testing seed corn. 

2. Make an outline drawing of one of 
the following: mail box, chicken coop. 

3. Name two pictures you have studied 
in school. Which is your favorite and 
why? 

4. What is meant by free-hand draw- 
ing? 

5. Draw a poster for the month of May, 



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making the design appropriate for the 
month. 

6. Draw a cube; a triangle; a rectangle. 

7. Tell in your own words why you like 
the study of drawing. 

8. Make a drawing of a potato, apple, 
pumpkin. 

9. Draw a pint cup and a quart cup. 

10. Draw a box 3 inches long and a box 
y 2 foot long. 

Lesson XII 

DRAWING 

5-8-19 

1. Name three great pictures, and the 
artist of each. 

2. What is your favorite picture? Write 
a paragraph telling why you like it, or 
what you like in it. 

3. Tell simply and clearly what yon 
understand by horizon line; construction 
line; convergence. Illustrate these by 
drawings. 

4. Draw a design for a book mark which 
shall be a gift for: 

(1) a friend who is fond of reading; or 
(2)/ a friend who likes skating; or 
(3) a friend who is fond of Boys' and 
Girls' Club Work. 

5. Draw (1) a cube; (2) a square; (3) 
a rectangle; (4) a pyramid and (5) a cyl- 
inder. 

Lesson XIII 

DRAWING 
3-25-20 

1. Draw a vertical line, a horizontal 
line, an oblique line. 

2. Name your favorite picture. Why is 
it your favorite? 

3. Draw an orange, apple or potato. 

4. Draw a rectangle, square, triangle. 

5. Draw a fence by a roadside, vanish- 
ing in the distance. 



Lesson XIV 

DRAWING 
5-6-20 

1. Draw a cube so as to show the top, 
front, and right side. 

2. Draw a cylinder in an upright posi- 
tion, showing the top. 



3. Draw a scene showing a level stretch 
of country with a tree near and one in 
the distance. 

4. Letter neatly the following title for 
a booklet cover: "Spring Flowers." 

5. What value may be derived from 
the study of drawing? 



Lesson XV 

DRAWING 

4-7-21 ' 

1. Name three things that drawing 
teaches you. 

2. Make a drawing of a vase contain- 
ing flowers. 

3. Make a drawing expressing early 
spring. 

4. Illustrate. "The moon rose over the 
city behind the dark church tower." 

5. Name a picture you have studied and 
tell briefly what message it brings to you. 

6. What were the favorite subjects of 
the following artists: Rosa Bonheur, Mil- 
let, Landseer? 

7. Give the names of the rainbow 
colors. 

8. Draw a cube, a square, a cylinder. 

9. What is a free hand drawing? 

10. What are vertical lines? Horizontal 
lines? Parallel lines? 



Lesson XVI 

DRAWING 
5-5-21 

1. Of what value is drawing? 

2. Name the six spectrum colors. 

3. Make a drawing of potatoes, beets, 
and apples. 

4. Make a calendar design appropriate 
for May. 

5. Draw (1) a cube; (2) a square; (3) 
a cylinder. 

6. What is meant by free hand draw- 
ing? 

7. Draw a border design one inch wide 
halfway across the page. 

8. Name two pictures you have studied 
and name the artists who painted them. 

9. Make a calendar design for any 
month you may choose. 

10. Illustrate vertical lines, parallel 
lines. 



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History 



Lesson I 

HISTORY AND CIVICS 

4-8-15 
(Answer ten) 

1. Who is (a) President of the United 
States? (b) Secretary of state? (c) Gov- 
ernor of Nebraska? (d) State superin- 
tendent of schools? (e) Your County Su- 
perintendent? 

2. Name an early English explorer and 
tell something of him. When and where 
was the first permanent English settle- 
ment made? 

3. Tell something of conditions in Eu- 
rope which led people to come to America 
to settle. What condition in Europe at 
present? How will it probably affect emi- 
gration from Europe to America? 

4. Name the thirteen original colonies. 

5. Tell something of the improvements 
in navigation since Columbus made his 
voyage to America. 

6. Make a statement about two of 
these: Zeppelin, Marconi, Wilbur Wright. 

7. What is meant by International 
Peace? By the Monroe Doctrine? 

8. What is meant by woman's suffrage? 

9. Name three generals in the Revolu- 
tionary War. The Civil War. 

10. What led to the settlement of Mary- 
land? Georgia? Pennsylvania? 

11. What is meant by the recall of pub- 
lic officers? 

12. Why do people pay taxes? 



Lesson II 

HISTORY AND CIVICS 

5-6-15 
(Answer ten) 

1. Tell of the making of the first Amer- 
ican flag. Who made it? What does each 
part represent. How many stars and 
stripes now? Who wrote the "Star 
Spangled Banner"? 

2. What is civil service? Do you think 
it is a good thing? Why? 

3. What is meant by Equal Suffrage? 
By Neutrality? 

4. What was the Emancipation Procla- 
mation? 

5. Tell of the Panama Exposition — its 
place and purpose. 

6. What is a labor union? 

7. Why is our country interested in 
watching Mexico at present? 



8. How many wars has the United 
States participated in? 

9. What was the Kansas-Nebraska bill? 

10. Select five of the following and 
make one statement about each: Poca- 
hontas, John Smith, Roger Williams, 
Benjamin Franklin, Robert Pulton, Wil- 
liam Penn, Benedict Arnold, Jane Addams, 
Frances E. Willard, Harriet Beecher 
Stowe. 

11. What must a person do in order 
to be a good citizen? 

12. Name your county officers. 

Lesson III 

HISTORY AND CIVICS 

3-9-16 

(Answer ten) 

1. Name the president you most ad- 
mire. Give reasons for your answer. 
Name the chief event of his administra- 
tion. 

2. Tell something of each of the follow- 
ing: Washington, Lewis and Clark, Zebu- 
Ion Pike, Aaron Burr, Fulton. 

3. What was the "Era of Good Feel- 
ing"? The Missouri Compromise? 

4. What is meant by the "Monroe Doc- 
trine"? Give account of some instance 
in which its principles have been used 
effectively. 

5. Discuss Andrew Jackson's adminis- 
tration touching upon his personality, idea 
of government, and events of his adminis- 
tration such as rapid immigration, cheap 
lands, invention of sewing machine, 
threshing machine, telegraph, etc. 

6. What is meant by the "Spoils Sys- 
tem"? By civil service? Is the latter a 
good thing? Give reasons for your answer. 

7. Discuss briefly the growth of slavery 
from its beginning up to the beginning of 
the Civil War. 

8. When did the Civil War begin? 
When did it close? Name three northern 
and three southern commanders. 

9. What war marked McKinley's ad- 
ministration? 

10. What is the effect of any two of 
these on rural life: Rural mail service, 
telephone, automobile? 

11. Name the three departments of 
government. How many members in the 
president's cabinet? How chosen? Name 
one and give his duties. 

12. What are the sources ' of national 
revenue and the chief items of national 
expense? 



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13. What is meant by "income tax"? 
Is it a good thing? Why? What is its 
purpose? 

Lesson IV 

HISTORY AND CIVICS 

4-13-16 
(Answer ten) 

1. Name the original thirteen colonies 
and describe the settlement of one of 
them. 

2. Write a statement about each of 
these: Paul Jones, Patrick Henry, Corn- 
wallis, Tecumseh, Benjamin Franklin, La 
Fayette, Benedict Arnold, LaSalle, Henry 
Hudson, Pocahontas. 

3. What was the "Alien Law"? The 
"Sedition Law"? 

4. What trouble had the United States 
with England during Madison's adminis- 
tration (1812)? 

5. To what events do any three of the 
following quotations refer? "Fifty-four 
forty or fight." "Don't give up the ship." 
"Millions for defense but not one cent for 
tribute." "We'll fight it out on this line 
if it takes all summer." "Give me liberty 
or give me death." "We have met the 
enemy and they are ours." 

6. What occasioned the Civil War? 
Why did South Carolina secede? 

7. Write ten lines on any one of the 
following: Sherman's march to the sea. 
The Monitor and Merrimac. Surrender 
of Lee. 

8. What were the Christian and Sani- 
tary commissions? What organization is 
now doing this work on the battlefields? 

9. Name our living ex-presidents. 

10. Name five weaknesses of the Ar- 
ticles of Confederation. 

11. Tell about one of these: The Mis- 
souri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska 
bill. Squatter sovereignty. 

12. What is meant by equal suffrage? 

13. What is reform legislation? What 
reform issue is now before the people of 
Nebraska. 

Lesson V 

HISTORY AND CIVICS 

5-5-16 

(Answer ten) 

1. What is an ambassador? 

2. What is the right of Eminent Do- 
main? Give an example. 

3. Name four great Americans living 
today. Name two noted women and tell 
what they have done. 

4. Describe how we acquired any one 
of these territories: Louisiana Purchase, 
Texas, Alaska, Florida. 



5. What great engineering feat was 
completed during Wilson's administra- 
tion? What great exposition was held 
during the past year? Where? Why? 

6. Name five presidents and give one 
event under each administration. 

7. Name three nations now engaged in 
war. What is meant by preparedness? 

8. Name two recent great inventions. 

9. Discuss the discovery of gold in Cali- 
fornia. 

10. When did Nebraska become a 
state? 

11. Name your county officers. 

12. How are our public schools sup- 
ported? Name some duties of the school 
board. 

Lesson VI 

HISTORY AND CIVICS 

3-22-17 
(Answer ten) 

1. Write a five line sketch of your best 
loved American. 

2. Name five noted explorers and that 
part of the country with which their names 
are associated. 

3. Distinguish between Separatist, Pur- 
itan and Pilgrim. 

4. Name the original thirteen colonies, 
with dates of settlement. 

5. Name the inter-colonial wars, with 
dates and the treaties that settled each. 

6. For what was the Revolutionary 
War fought? Name some prominent men 
of the time. 

7. Give date of the Declaration of Inde- 
pendence; of the present constitution. 

8. Name the wars in which the United 
States has been engaged, and tell for 
what each one was fought. 

9. What are the departments of the 
government of the United States? 

10. What constitutes the Congress of 
the United States? 

11. How are congressmen chosen? How 
many representatives has the state of Ne- 
braska in the National Congress at Wash- 
ington? 

12. Name four prominent men of Ne- 
braska of national reputation. 

Lesson VII 

HISTORY AND CIVICS 
4-19-17 
(Answer ten) 
1. What was the difference between 
the Articles of Confederation and the Con- 
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2. What are the qualifications for a 
voter in Nebraska? How can an immi- 
grant become a voter? 

3. Name three inventions that have 
been influential in the progress of our 
country? Which one has been the means 
of absolutely changing industrial condi- 
tions in the United States? 

4. What effect did the Erie 'Canal have 
upon industrial and commercial conditions 
in America? Locate it. 

5. When, where, and by whom was the 
first locomotive built in America? The 
first steamboat? How did they change 
conditions in America? 

6. State the conditions that developed 
into the panic of 1837. How did this panic 
affect the county? 

7. What is a protective tariff? Name 
some articles you use that are protected 
by tariff. 

8. Name the thirteen colonies: give 
reasons why any five of them were formed 
and tell where and by whom the first 
settlement was made in each one of the 
five. 

9. State the qualifications for a United 
States Representative; a United States 
Senator; President of the United States. 

10. What is the law in Nebraska re- 
garding compulsory attendance at school? 
What is the legislative body that governs 
your county called? 

11. Who are the following: W. H. 
Clemmons, Keith Neville, Charles W. 
Poole, Grant G. Martin, your State Sen- 
ator, your State Representative, Edgar 
Howard, the most distinguished man in 
Nebraska, Samuel Avery, Moses Kinkaid? 

Lesson VIII 

HISTORY AND CIVICS 

5-10-17 

(Answer ten) 

1. What do you understand by the 
Emancipation Proclamation? The Consti- 
tution of the United States? 

2. How does a bill become a law in 
the state legislature? What is meant by 
veto? Who holds the power of veto in 
the state? 

3. What effect did the Erie Canal have 
upon the development of our country. 
Where is the Erie Canal? 

4. Who is the United State Congress- 
man from your district? Why did the 
population increase so rapidly in the west 
about 1849? 

5. What is meant by The Spoils Sys- 
tem? Name four of our possessions which 
are not a part of the United States. 

6. Tell something of importance in the 



lives of five of the following: J. C. Cal- 
houn, Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln, 
U. S. Grant, General Sherman, Daniel 
Boone, Benjamin Franklin, Frances Wil- 
lard, "Mad" Anthony Wayne, George 
Washington. 

7. What form of government has Cuba? 
How did Cuba acquire this form of govern- 
ment? Of what consequence was the 
Declaration of Independence? 

8. Name 5 of the 13 colonies and tell 
where and by whom they were made? 

9. Tell something of importance con- 
cerning Lewis and Clark expedition. What 
effect did this expedition have upon. the 
country west of the Mississippi river? 

10. Name 5 men who have been presi- 
dent of the United States other than those 
mentioned in other questions and tell two 
events in their administrations which ap- 
peal to you as being important. 

11. What was the cause of the Civil 
War? What was Lincoln's attitude and 
what was his policy toward the abolition 
of slavery? 

12. Who is the Governor of Nebraska; 
the President of the United States? What 
were the Alien and Sedition Laws? 

Lesson IX 

HISTORY 
4-11-18 

1. What colonies were settled on ac- 
count of religious difficulties? On account 
of seeking wealth? To escape punishment 
for debt? For other reasons, and give 
reasons? 

2. Give the cause for which we fought 
in each of the following wars: Revolu- 
tion, Civil, Spanish-American; and for 
which we are fighting in the present war. 

3. What were the Articles of Confed- 
eration? Name three of their weaknesses. 

4. Name the first five presidents and 
an important event which happened dur- 
ing each administration. 

5. What effect had the Erie Canal upon 
the growth and development of the West? 

6. Name five inventions that have in- 
fluenced the development of our country, 
and tell how each has been influential. 

7. What is meant by civil service and 
of what did it take the place? 

8. Make a comparison of the resources 
and preparation of the United States for 
the Civil War with those of the war of 
today. 

9. Name three of the greatest men of 
today. Why do you consider them so 
great? 

10. Who are the Allies? What coun- 
tries are fighting with Germany? 



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Lesson X 

HISTORY 
5-10-18 

1. What three nations were most active 
in the exploration of America? What 
motive actuated each? 

2. Name five of the thirteen colonies 
and tell where and by whom they were 
made. 

3. Name five wars the United States 
has engaged in and with whom each has 
been fought. 

4. Name five presidents and give an 
event under each administration. 

5. Name four acquisitions of territory 
made by the United States and tell from 
what country each was acquired. 

6. Give the names of two American 
inventors living now and something each 
has invented. 

7. Why is it necessary to amend the 
Constitution of the United States? How 
many amendments has the Constitution? 

8. Give the different ways in which the 
United States is raising money to carry 
on the present war. State three ways in 
which it is spent. 

9. Tell something of the work of the 
Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. in the 
United States at the present time. 

10. When was Nebraska admitted as 
a state, who was president at that time? 

Lesson XI 

HISTORY 
4-10-19 

1. Name four early, explorers and tell 
something of the voyages of each. 

2. When and where was the first 
permanent English colony made in Amer- 
ica? 

3. What caused the Revolutionary War? 
The War of 1812? The Civil War? The 
Spanish-American War? 

4. What are the war aims of the United 
States in the present world war? 

5. What is the meaning of the follow- 
ing: Democracy? Armistice? Sedition? 
Alien? Peace Conference? 

6. State how negro slavery was intro- 
duced into the United States, and how it 
was abolished. 

7. Name five great American states- 
men and tell something of each. 

8. Name four measures considered by 
the Nebraska legislature of 1919. Name 
two that became laws. 

9. Explain briefly the purpose of the 
War Savings Societies; Junior Red Cross; 
Boys' Working Reserve; Fourth Liberty 
Loan. 



10. Name the governor of Nebraska; 
state superintendent, U. S. senators from 
Nebraska, county superintendent of your 
county. 

Lesson XII 

HISTORY 

5-8-19 
(Answer ten) 

1. Give the native country of and the 
special thing done by any of the follow- 
ing: J. Sterling Morton, DeSoto, Susan 
B. Anthony, Raleigh, Hudson, LaSalle, Sir 
Francis Drake, Pocohontas, Lafayette, and 
R. E. Peary. 

2. Name the martyred presidents. 
Name all the presidents that were elected 
for more than one term. 

3. State causes, two battles and the re- 
sults of the Revolutionary War. 

4. Name five presidents and state one 
important event that took place during 
each administration. 

5. What is meant by the Monroe Doc- 
trine? What can you tell about the League 
of Nations? 

6. Discuss the Emancipation Proclama- 
tion. What is meant by the Spoils Sys- 
tem? 

7. Name two early' Spanish explorers, 
two French, one Dutch and one English. 

8. Name and describe briefly the three 
branches of our government. 

9. Give the names and dates of all the 
wars in which the U. S. has engaged. 

10. Name two discoveries and three in- 
ventions which have greatly aided the 
U. S. during the past fifty years. 

11. Name five prominent men in the 
U. S. and state for what each is noted. 
Name the governor, U. S. senators, con- 
gressman from your district, and the 
speaker of the present House of Repre- 
sentatives from Nebraska. 

12. State something concerning each of 
the following: Eli Whitney, Henry Clay, 
Nathan Hale, Daniel Webster, W. J. Bryan, 
Wm. H. Taft, Lloyd George, Benedict Arn- 
old, Walt Mason, and Patrick Henry. 

Lesson XIII 

HISTORY 

3-25-20 

1. Why did the English come to Amer- 
ica? The French? The Spanish? 

2. Who were the Pilgrims? 

3. Briefly describe the life of the Am 
erican Indian at the time of the settle- 
ment of our country. 

4. Name and locate the territory ac- 
quired by the United States since we be- 
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5. Make a statement about each of the 
following: Alexander Hamilton, J. Ster- 
ling Morton, William McKinley, John J. 
Pershing, Robert Lansing. 

6. Explain what is meant by one of 
the following: League of Nations, Mis- 
souri Compromise, Civil Service. 

7. Name the event in connection with 
each of the following dates: July 4, 1776; 
November 11, 1918. 

8. Name five states that belonged to 
the Union when we began our national 
existence. Name five states that have 
been added within the last fifty years. 

9. Briefly describe the historical im- 
portance of one of the following: Decla- 
ration of Independence; Monroe Doctrine; 
Panama Canal. 

10. Name five important inventions 
that have contributed to the rapid develop- 
ment of the United States. 



3. What is meant by the Monroe Doc- 
trine ? 

4. Tell something of the life of Colum- 
bus; education, occupation and voyages. 

5. Name the thirteen original colonies. 

6. What was the cause of the Revolu- 
tionary War? Result? Name two battles 
of the war and the leading generals in 
the last battle. 

7. What wars has the United States 
been engaged in since the Revolutionary 
War? What was the result of each war? 

8. Name five presidents of the United 
States and the principal events in each 
administration. 

9. Why did the United States enter 
the world war? 

10. Tell about one of these: Missouri 
Compromise, The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 
Emancipation Proclamation. 



Lesson XIV 

HISTORY 
5-6-20 

1. Name the thirteen original colonies. 

2. Name one English, one French, and 
one Spanish explorer. Tell what each 
explored. 

3. For what reasons have the people 
of Europe come to America? From what 
countries have they come? 

4. Where were the early English col- 
onies made? The early French? The early 
Spanish? 

5. Make a statement about each of the 
following: Robert Fulton, Thomas A. 
Edison, J. Sterling Morton, Henry Clay, 
Ulysses S. Grant. 

6. Name five presidents and give an 
important event during the administration 
of each. 

7. Tell about one of the following: 
Squatter Sovereignty, Missouri Compro- 
mise. 

8. Write the name of a great American 
statesman, an inventor, a soldier, an edu- 
cator, and a business man. Do not men- 
tion names already used in this examina- 
tion. 

9. What is the Monroe Doctrine. 

10. Why did the United States enter 
the world war? 

Lesson XV 

HISTORY 

4-7-21 

1. Is a knowledge of geography impor- 
tant to those studying history? Why? 

2. What were the Articles of Confedera- 
tion? . 



Lesson XVI 

HISTORY 
5-5-21 

1. Name four acquisitions of territory 
made by the United States and tell from 
what country each was acquired. 

2. Name four presidents and give an 
important event under each administra- 
tion. 

3. Name a noted explorer of America 
from each of the following countries: 
Spain, England, France, and Holland. Tell 
what each of these four explorers accom- 
plished. 

4. What was the cause of the Revolu- 
tionary War? Name two generals on each 
side. Name five important battles. What 
were the results of the Revolutionary 
War? 

5. Write one statement about any five 
of the following: La Fayette, Benedict 
Arnold, William Penn, Hamilton, J. Ster- 
ling Morton, William McKinley, Patrick 
Henry. 

6. Tell the indirect cause and the direct 
cause of the Civil War. What question 
was settled by the Civil War? Who was 
president at the time? 

7. Why should the following dates be 
remembered? Select five: 1492, 1607, 1620, 
1776, 1812, 1867, Nov. 11, 1918. 

8. Give provisions of the Monroe Doc- 
trine; the Missouri Compromise, and the 
Kansas-Nebraska Bill. 

9. Why did the United States enter the 
World War? 

10. Give a list of ten public officials and 
their offices. This list may include either 
county, state, or national officials. 



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Civi 



ivies 

A Brief Outline of Civics for Grade Pupils 

(By County Supt. L. H. Currier) 

There is no subject more neglected in the work of rural or village schools than 
the study of civics. 

If the citizenship of the future shall intelligently meet its issues and solve its 
problems, it will be as a result of a thorough acquaintance with the fundamental prin- 
ciples of our government. There is a greater need than ever before for a study of 
political and economic questions on the part of the voter. This cannot be left to the 
high schools, colleges and universities entirely. The majority of the youth of the present 
get no education beyond the grade "schools. The high school sees only a small propor- 
tion of those who enter the grades. 

It is hoped that this brief outline may serve as a starting point in the study of the 
facts of our government. Since time is a very important factor in our rural and village 
schools, civics should be supplemented with history and should be taught in every 
grade above the primary, with more and more fullness as the pupil advances. This 
outline is not intended to be exhaustive. The intelligent teacher can easily add to 
as may be needed. 
SOCIETY. VI. 

1. Definition. 

2. Man a social being. 

3. Rights. 

a. Civil. 

1. Industrial. 

2. Social. 

3. Religious. yjj 

b. Political. 



Statements relating to. 

1. Reasons for its issue. 

2. Rights of all men. 

3. Conditions which justify revolu- 

tion. 

4. Grievances of colonists. 

5. Authority for action. 

Signing of document. 



4. Duties. 

5. Source 



of authority. 



GOVERNMENT 

1 

2 
3 

4 



Definition. 
Define civil. 
Origin. 
Object. 

a. See Preamble of constitution. 

b. See Declaration of Independ- 

ence. 

5. Necessity. 

6. Kinds. 

a. Monarchial (define). 

b. Aristocratic (define). 

c. Democratic (define). 



EVOLUTION OF NATIONAL GOVERN- 
MENT. 

I. Colonial Governments. 

1. Provincial. 

2. Proprietary. 

3. Charter. 

II. First Colonial Assembly. 

III. First Continental Congress. 

IV. Second Continental Congress. 

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 
I. Resolution of Richard Henry Lee. 
II. Committee. 

III. Authority. 

IV. Adoption. 
V. Importance. 



ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION. 
I. History. 
II. Important Provisions. 

1. Nature of Government. 

2. Composition of Congress. 

3. Representatives. 

III. Cause of these peculiar provisions. 

IV. Their defects. 

V. Their good results. 

ORIGIN OF THE CONSTITUTION. 
I. Failure of the Articles of Confed- 
eration. 
II. Action of Congress. 

III. Constitutional Convention. 

IV. Constitution Submitted to States. 
V. Its Adoption and Ratification. 

VI. Expiration of the Confederation. 
VII. Sources of the Constitution. 

1. American experience. 

2. State experience. 

3. The British Constitution. 

4. Other sources. 

VIII. The Dual Government Provided. 
IX. Growth of the Constitution. 

CONSTITUTION. 

I. Constitution (define). 

1. Kinds. 

a. Written. 

b. Unwritten. 



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II. U. S. Constitution (define). 

1. Preamble (Memorize). 

III. Branches of Government. 

1. Legislative (Congress). 

a. Composition. 

b. Duties and Powers. 

c. Sessions. 

1. Regular 

2. Special. 

3. Length. 

d. House of Representatives. 

1. How composed. 

2. Eligibility. 

a. Age. 

b. Citizenship. 

c. Inhabitancy. 

3. Members. 

a. How apportioned. 

b. Election. 

c. Salary. 

d. Vacancies. 

e. Length of term. 

f. Name representatives 

from your state. 

4. Enumeration. 

a. When made. 

b. How made. 

5. By whom elected. 

6. Qualifications of voters. 

7. How vacancies are filled. 

8. House Powers. 

a. Concurrent. 

b. Exclusive. 

c. Inquisitorial. 

d. Elective. 

1. House officers. 

2. President of U. S. 

e. Senate. 

1. How composed. 

2. Eligibility. 

a. Age. 

b. Citizenship. 

c. Inhabitancy. 

3. Term. 

4. Salary. 

5. Election. 

6. Vacancies, how filled. 

7. Officers. 

a. Vice-President U. S. 

b. President pro-tempore. 

c. Chief Justice. ■ 
7. Powers of. 

a. Legislative. 

b. Executive. 

1. Appointments. 

2. Treaties. 

c. Elective. 

1. Senate Officers. 

2. Vice-President of U. S. 

d. Judicial. 

2. Executive Department. 

a. In whom vested. 

b. How elected. 

c. Term. 

d. Salary. 

e. Qualifications. 



1. Citizenship. 

2. Residence. 

3. Age. 

f. How elected. 

1. Electors. 

2. Number. 

3. Proceedings. 

g. Duties and Powers. 

1. Executive. 

2. Legislative. 

3. Judicial, 
h. Vacancy. 

1. How it may occur. 

2. How filled. 

i. Vice-President (outline). 
3. Judicial Department (U. S. 
Courts). 

a. How vested. 

1. Supreme Court. 

2. Inferior Courts. 

b. Judges. 

1. How appointed. 

a. President. 

b. Senate. 

2. Number. 

3. Term. 

4. Salary. 

5. Oath of Office. 

6. How removed. 

7. Jurisdiction. 

a. Limitation. 

b. Original. 

c. Appellate. 

8. Powers. 

a. Judicial. 

b. Legislative (constitution- 

ality of U. S. laws). 
State Government. 

1. State Constitution (Preamble). 

a. Origin. 

b. Amendments. 

c. Constitutional Convention to 

revise in 1919. 

d. New Constitution. 

2. Legislative Department. 

a. Senate and House of Represen- 
tatives. 

1. Number of members. 

a. Senate. 

b. House. 

2. Sessions. 

3. Term. 

4. Salary. 

5. Qualifications. 

6. Presiding Officer. 

7. Committees. 

8. Powers and Duties. 

9. Name your Senator and 

Representative. 

10. What is a law? 

11. What is a bill? 

12. Name all steps required for 

a bill to become a law. 

3. Executive Department. 
a. Executive Officers. 

1. Governor. 

2. Lieutenant-Governor. 



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b. Administrative Officers. 

1. Secretary of State. 

2. Auditor. 

3. Treasurer. 

4. Attorney General. 

5. Other Officers. 

6. Administrative Code Depart- 
ments. 

I The secretary of each of the 
following departments is ap- 
pointed by the Governor.) 

Department of Finance. 

Department of Agriculture. 

Department of Labor. 

Department of Trade and 
Commerce. 

Department of Public Wel- 
fare. 

Department of Public 
Works. 

7. Department of Education. 

a. State Superintendent. 

b. Deputy State Superintend 

ent. 

c. Assistants. 

4. Judicial Department. 

a. Supreme Court. 

1. Jurisdiction. 

2. Judges. 

a. Election. 

b. Term. 

c. Salary. 

b. District Court. 

c. County Court. 

d. Justice Court. 

e. Police Court. 

f. Juvenile Court. 

g. Probate Court. 

County Government. 

1. Officers. 

a. Supervisors or Commissioners. 

1. Number. 

2. Qualifications. 

3. Powers and Duties. 

4. Election. 

5. Term. 

6. Salary. 

b. Treasurer. 

c. Judge. 

d. Register of Deeds. 

e. County Superintendent. 

f. Sheriff. 

g. Clerk. 

h. Surveyor, 
i. Coroner, 
j. Attorney, 
k. Assessor. 

1. Give duties of officers, 
m. Give names and salary of pres- 
ent county officers. 

Township and Precinct (define). 

1. Size. 

2. Officers. 

a. Three Judges of Election. 

b. Two Clerks of Election. 

c. One Assessor. 



d. Two Justices of the Peace. 

e. Two Constables. 

f. One Clerk. 

g. One Treasurer. 

School District (define). 

1. Size. 

2. Officers. 

a. Duties and Powers. 

b. Members. 

3. School Meetings. 

4. Electors. 

a. Qualifications. 

b. Powers. 

District Organizations. 

1. Rural School District. 

2. High School District. 

3. City District. 

4. Metropolitan District. 

5. Consolidated District. 

Few Facts Worth Knowing' in Civics 

(The following outline prepared by Marjorie Par- 
minter. Superintendent Pierce County, Nebraska.) 

The Constitution of the United States is 
the fundamental law which creates the 
several branches of the government and 
defines the powers entrusted to each. 

The United States has a republican form 
of government. A republican form of gov- 
ernment is one in which the people rule. 

The people rule through their chosen 
representatives: The President, the Vice- 
President, Delegates to Congress called 
Senators and Representatives; and others. 

Our government consists of three 
branches (1) Legislative, (2) Executive, 
(3) Judicial. 

In the Legislative branch is vested the 
power of making the laws of the United 
States. 

Congress, the body of men making the 
laws. 

Congress consists of two parts: The 
Senate and House of Representatives. 

Laws are made by Congress in this 
manner: 

After a bill is passed by both Houses 
of Congress, it is submitted to the Presi- 
dent for his approval. If he signs it, it 
becomes a law; if he takes no action upon 
it, it becomes a law after ten days without 
his signature; if he disapproves it, he re- 
turns it to'the house in which it originated 
with his objections. If the bill is then 
passed by two-thirds of the members of 
each house, it becomes a law over the 
President's veto. This is called passing a 
law over President's head or over his veto. 

Congress meets the first Monday in De- 
cember of each year at Washington, D. C. 

The Senate 
The Senate consists of two Senators from 
each state. They are elected by the people 
for a term of six years. The names of 
the two Senators from Nebraska are Geo. 
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The Vice President of the United States 
is the presiding officer or president of the 
Senate. Calvin Coolidge is Vice President. 

Lower House of Congress — Representatives 

The House of Representatives consists 
of representatives from each state. These 
representatives are elected by a direct vote 
of the people for a term of two years. 

The number of representatives from 
each state is according to the population 
of the state. 

Each state is divided into Congressional 
districts, from each of which there is one 
representative. The population is determ- 
ined by Congress after each national 
census. 

Executive 

In the executive branch is vested the 
power of enforcing the laws through the 
civil officers of the courts and different de- 
partments of the government and if neces- 
sary, through the army and navy. 

The President is chief of the executive 
branch. 

In order to become President the re- 
quirements are as follows: 

He shall be a native born citizen of the 
United States, shall have attained the age 
of 35 and been 14 years a resident of this 
country. 

The President is elected for a term of 
four years by a number of electors from 
each state, who are chosen by the people. 

There are as many electors as there are 
members in Congress which includes Sen- 
ators and Representatives. Nebraska then 
would have eight. 

The President is Commander-in-Chief of 
the army and navy. 

Next in office to the President is Vice- 
President, who is elected for the same 
time in the same manner as the Presi- 
dent. 

The Judicial Department 

Interprets and applies the laws. It is 
vested in a Supreme Court consisting of 
Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices 
and Inferior Courts established by Con- 
gress. 

There are 48 states which are united 
under the national government at Wash- 
ington. 

This country is called the United States 
because it is made up of certain territories 
or communities called states. We have 
learned the names of the states and cap- 
itals. 

The names of the territories, possessions 
and dependencies and capital city of each 
are as follows: 

Alaska — Juneau 
Porto Rico — San Juan 
Hawaii — Honolulu 
Philippine — Manila 
Panama — (Canal Zone) 



State Government 

Each state has a government based upon 
a constitution of its own, which must not 
conflict in any way with the Constitution 
of the United States. 

The State consists of three branches of 
government: (1) Legislative, (2) Exec- 
utive, (3) Judicial. 

The State Legislature makes the laws 
for the state, and consists of a Senate and 
House of Representatives. 

The number of Senators and Representa- 
tives in each State depends upon the popu- 
lation. 

Nebraska has 33 Senators and 100 Rep- 
resentatives. 

Laws are made by the State Legislature 
for the State in a manner very similar to 
those made by Congress for the United 
States. 

The Governor and members of the State 
Legislature are elected by a direct vote of 
the people. 

City Government 

The City government is a government 
entirely by the people acting through a 
Mayor and City Council chosen by the 
voters. 

The chief officer of the city is the Mayor. 
The laws of the city are called Ordinances. 
The law makers are called Aldermen or 
Councilmen. The Councilmen with the 
Mayor of a city constitute the City Council. 



Lesson I 

CIVICS 

4-8-15 

1. Why is government necessary? 

2. What is an absolute monarchy? A 
democracy? What dangers might arise in 
each form of government? 

3. (a) Why is Congress composed of 
two houses? (b) What determines the num- 
ber of senators in Congress? The number 
of representatives? 

4. What is the chief function of Con- 
gress? What restriction on this chief 
power? 

5. How are vacancies in the National 
Senate filled? In the National House of 
Representatives ? 

6. What are the qualifications for presi- 
dent of the United States? 

7. Of what does the judicial department 
of the United States consist? 

8. What is the length of the term of 
office of a judge of the United States Su- 
preme Court? Why was this arrangement 
made? 

9. What is a tax? What kind of tax 
does the national government levy? The 
state? 



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10. Name three county officers and the 
duties of each. 



Lesson II 

CIVICS 
5-6-15 

1. What is Civics? What is the im- 
portance of a course in Civics? 

2. (a) What is contempt of court? (b) 
Describe the writ of habeas corpus; state 
under what circumstances it is used. 

3. What is a municipality and state 
briefly its duties. 

4. What protects a citizen's personal 
and property rights? What are the two 
main divisions of the constitution of the 
United States? 

5. What are the powers of Congress? 
How do congressmen secure their positions 
and how long do they serve? 

6. State briefly some of the business 
transacted in the state legislature. Tell 
the difference between federal and state 
authority. Which has original jurisdic- 
tion? 

7. What law-making body determines 
the constitutionality of laws? How many 
men make up this body? 

8. Who is our president? What are his 
duties? 

9. What system of voting is generally 
used throughout the United States? What 
are its advantages? 

10. How many courts are found in a 
state? Name them. 



Lesson III 

CIVICS 
4-14-16 

1. (a) Define taxes, (b) Mention two 
kinds of taxes. 

2. What is an ex post facto law? 

3. Give arguments for or against choos- 
ing a president direct by popular vote. 

4. Give one reason why a legislature 
should consist of two bodies. 

5. Define "slander," "libel." 

6. How do the two houses of Congress 
differ as to the way in which the presid- 
ing officer is chosen? 

7. Into what three departments are the 
powers of the United States Government 
divided, and why is this division made? 

8. Define: caucus, convention, primary. 

9. Name one Democratic and one Re- 
publican candidate for Governor at yester- 
day's primary. 

10. Show why the education of the 
masses is important in a republic. 



Lesson IV 

CIVICS 

5-5-16 

1. What are the suffrage qualifications 
in the state of Nebraska? 

2. What are the sources of revenue of 
the national government? 

3. How are United States senators 
elected? 

4. What provision does the United 
States constitution make for federal 
courts? 

5. Discuss the president's cabinet as to 
function, method of choosing, and admin- 
istrative departments under each. 

6. Name and give duties of three state 
executive officers. 

7. What two kinds ot county govern- 
ment are found in Nebraska? How do 
they differ? 

8. Who is the chief executive in the city 
government? What court forms the judi- 
cial department of city government? 

9. What is meant by school land? 

10. Discuss the attitude taken by Presi- 
dent Wilson on the Mexican question. 



Lesson V 

CIVICS 
3-21-17 

1. What do you understand by govern- 
ment? 

2. Why did the government the colonies 
started under the Articles of Confedera- 
tion prove unsatisfactory? 

3. How is the law-making body of the 
United States composed? 

4. What body of men is most closely as- 
sociated with the president ia his execu- 
tive duties? How many of them and how 
do they get into that position? 

5. People dread law-suits and trials, yet 
our courts are said to be excellent insti- 
tutions. Explain why. 

6. Define: tariff, internal revenue, aris- 
tocracy. 

7. State the two channels through 
which the federal government receives 
most of its revenue for paying its ex- 
penses. 

8. When will the State Legislature next 
convene? How long will the session prob- 
ably continue and what compensation will 
its members receive? 

9. Give the provision for free public- 
school libraries in Nebraska. 

10. What is the importance of the study 
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Lesson VI 

CIVICS 
4-19-17 

1. Name the objects of the Constitution 
of the United States as set forth in the 
preamble. 

2. What is meant by "the long session" 
and "the short session" of Congress? 

3. If a vacancy occur in the United 
States Senate, how is such vaeancy filled? 
If in the House of Representatives, how is 
it filled? 

4. Tell the different methods by which 
a bill may become a law in the United 
States Congress. 

5. In case of disputes concerning legal 
questions, who shall interpret the law? 

6. Give a clear illustration of direct 
taxation and one of indirect taxation. 

7. Name five of our State Institutions 
in five different towns and tell purpose of 
each. 

8. From what sources do our schools 
receive revenue for their support? 

9. What provision is made for libraries 
in our public schools? 

10. What is: martial law, maratime 
law, a writ of habeas corpus? 



Lesson VIII 

CIVICS 
4-11-18 

1. What is the form of government in 
Germany? What is there about it to which 
the United States objects? 

2. Who is Congressman from your dis- 
trict? How does he secure his office? 

3. What do we mean by Civil Service? 
Do you believe it the proper thing? Why? 

4. Name: President of United States; 
Governor of Nebraska; Commander of 
American Forces in France. 

5. What are Liberty Bonds? Thrift 
Stamps? Name three purposes for which 
the United States needs money. 

6. Name two of the National Army can- 
tonments. What is meant by a canton- 
ment? At which are most of the Nebraska 
boys? 

7. Suppose there is a law in Nebraska 
of which I do not approve. Need I obey 
it? Why? 

8. Name your county officers and give 
one duty of each. 

9. What is meant by a representative 
government? Give example. 

10. Write ten lines on why you prefer 
living in the United States to Germany. 



Lesson VII 

CIVICS 
5-10-17 

1. What is the purpose of government? 
What is our motive for teaching civics? 

2. How long is the term of a repre- 
sentative in Congress? Of a senator? Of 
a judge of the supreme court of the U. S.? 

3. What is meant by civil service? By 
diplomatic service. 

4. Describe the ordinary proceedings in 
the passage of a law in Nebraska. 

5. What classes of cities are there in 
Nebraska? Name a city of each class. 

6. What relation has the discipline of 
your school to the end to be obtained by 
teaching civics? Explain. 

7. What are the legal qualifications of a 
voter in Nebraska ? How often are state 
elections held in Nebraska? 

8. What are the qualifications for a 
voter at a school election in Nebraska? 

9. Name four state officers and define 
the duties of each. 

10. What should be the plan of teaching 
civics in the lower grades? 



Lesson IX 

CIVICS 
5-11-18 

1. What are some of the things that a 
citizen receives from his community? In 
what ways may a citizen contribute to the 
welfare of his community? 

2. Why is the state legislature com- 
posed of two houses? Why was a special 
meeting held in the spring of 1918? 

3. Who are the two United States Sen- 
ators from this state? 

4. In what way are voters responsible 
for the government of the country? 

5. Why does the constitution of the 
United States require that the President 
shall be a native of the U. S.? Who is 
president and of what state is he a citizen? 

6. What are the advantages of having 
our representatives live in our own local- 
ity? Who is the representative from this 
district? 

7. What is the law in Nebraska regard- 
ing compulsory attendance at school? 

8. Who are the following: W. H. Clem- 
mons, Keith Neville, John J. Pershing, 
Herbert Hoover? 

9. What great drive is on to raise 
money to carry on the war? What was 
the income tax? What is its purpose? 



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10. Write ten lines on why we should 
buy Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps. 

Lesson X 

CIVICS 
4-10-19 

1. Who is our president and what are 
his duties? 

2. In the state of Nebraska, what 
branches of the government exercise the 
following powers: (a) executive, (b) leg- 
islative, (c) judicial? Who is the head 
of the executive branch of the state gov- 
ernment? 

3. For what purpose are taxes collected? 
To what county official are taxes of your 
county paid? 

4. Name four county officers and the 
chief duties of each. 

5. Name two kinds of government and 
give an example of each? 

6. Name the congressman from your 
district. How does he get his office? For 
how long a term is he elected? 

7. When will the next United States 
census be taken? What is the purpose of 
the census? 

8. The law provides the president of 
the United States with a cabinet. How 
many members constitute this cabinet? 
Name three of them and the chief duties 
of each. 

9. A recent amendment to the Nebraska 
State Constitution requires a person to be 
a citizen of the United States before he 
can vote. Why is this desirable? 

10. Write not less than ten lines on 
"Why Government is Necessary." 



Lesson XI 

CIVICS 
5-8-19 

1. Make a list of your county officers. 
State their duties. 

2. (a) What are some of the ways in 
which you are wasteful? (b) What are 
some of the ways in which we can prevent 
waste in the home and in business? (c) 
What are some of the farmers doing to 
conserve the soil? 

3. How are the expenses of the govern- 
ment met? 

4. What is a Democracy? What is a 
Republic? What form of government have 
we? 

5. What advantage in having the repre- 
sentatives live in the locality they repre- 
sent? Who is the representative from 
this district? 

6. How are jurymen selected? What 



will debar a man from serving on the 
jury? 

7. What are the great political parties 
of today? What are some of the questions 
on which they are opposed to each other? 
Which party is in power now? 

8. Name three bills that have passed 
during this session of the Legislature. 

9. Where has our president been for 
the last few months? What part has he 
been taking in this conference? 

10. Do you think suffrage should be 
extended further? Give three reasons for 
your answer. 



Lesson XII 

CIVICS 
3-25-20 

1. Write the "Flag Salute." 

2. What is a patriotic citizen? 

3. What are some of the best ways to 
secure good government? 

4. Where has the constitutional conven- 
tion been meeting this winter? For what 
purpose? 

5. What is an amendment? Name two 
amendments to the United States Consti- 
tution recently ratified. 

6. What are the duties of the rural 
school board? 

7. What are "taxes"? Name three pub- 
lic services or institutions supported by 
taxes. 

8. Name your county offices. 

9. What is the chief duty of the presi- 
dent of the United States? Of the gov- 
ernor of Nebraska? Name these officials. 

10. How often is the census taken? Why 
is it taken? 

Lesson XIII 

CIVICS 

5-6-20 

1. Why is government necessary? 

2. Name four state offices and give one 
duty of each. 

3. How are voters responsible for good 
government? 

4. Name three public positions that are 
secured through civil service appointment. 

5. What are the duties of the state legis- 
lature? Who is the representative from 
your county? 

6. Name two rights guaranteed to the 
people by the constitution of the United 
States. 

7. What is "Mob Law"? Is it wrong? 
How may it be prevented? 

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office? Name four men talked of as can-, 
didates for president of the United States. 

9. When will the next general election 
occur? 

10. Make a diagram showing the sec- 
tions of a township. Write in the num- 
bers of the sections. 

Lesson XIV 

CIVICS 
4-7-21 

1. In what county, state, township, and 
school district do you live? 

2. Give the names of three of your 
county officers and the duties of each. 

3. What is the American Legion and 
who may belong to it? 

4. Give three reasons for the necessity 
of good roads. 

5. Give reasons why the school house in 
your district should be used outside of 
school hours for programmes, farmers' 
meetings and social affairs. 

6. Name and locate three institutions 
of learning in Nebraska. 

7. Give three or more duties of the 
school board of your district. 

8. Give the three divisions of our gov- 
ernment and the duties of each. 

9. Give three things that a good citizen 
will do; three that he will not do. 



10. What is a jury, poll tax, veto, asses- 
sor, ailen? 

Lesson XV 

CIVICS 

5-5-21 

1. What are the duties of the school 
board? Name the school officers of your 
district and give their official title. 

2. What must a person do in order to 
be a good citizen? Who are citizens of 
the United States? 

3. What are the three departments of 
the government of the United States? 

4. Name five prominent men in the 
United States and state for what each is 
noted. 

5. Who may be president of the United 
States? Who is president? When did he 
take office? 

5. What is the chief executive of the 
state called? Who holds this position 
in Nebraska? 

7. Explain how the laws of Nebraska 
are made. 

8. Name four county officers and duties 
of each. 

9. Name two branches of the state legis- 
lature. Which is the larger house? 

10. Why are taxes necessary? What 
benefits do we derive from the money that 
we pay out as taxes? 



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